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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on July 29, 2015 a Senate floor speech
Planned Parenthood is "the only health care that a significant number of women get. About 30 percent of women, that's their health care."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 15, 2015 an interview
If women seeking an abortion see their ultrasound, "the odds are pretty high they're going to keep the baby."
Mostly False
July 22, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 11, 2015 a speech in Phoenix
"The $5 billion website for Obamacare … never worked. Still doesn't work."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 14, 2015
Donna Howard
Donna Howard
stated on June 25, 2015 a press release
Texas has "the nation's highest rate and highest number of uninsured."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 1, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 25, 2015 a speech about the Affordable Care Act.
"By one leading measure, what business owners pay out in wages and salaries is now finally growing faster than what they spend on health insurance" for the first time in 17 years.
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • June 30, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 28, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week"
"We are the only major country on Earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • June 29, 2015
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 24, 2015 a chain email
"Under the Affordable Care Act, anyone on Medicare who is admitted to a hospital for observation will be responsible for the bill. Medicare won't pay a cent."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 25, 2015
NARAL Pro-Choice America
NARAL Pro-Choice America
stated on June 18, 2015 a TV ad
Says Scott Walker "said that forcing women facing abortion to get invasive ultrasounds was 'just a cool thing.'"
Mostly False
June 24, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on June 15, 2015 a speech launching his 2016 campaign
"The party in the White House" is responsible for "a massive tax increase on the middle class."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • June 23, 2015
Al Sharpton
Al Sharpton
stated on May 29, 2015 a broadcast of MSNBC's "PoliticsNation"
The Texas Senate "approved a bill to put a special label on the insurance cards of anyone who bought a plan through Obamacare" that includes the letter "S" for subsidy.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • June 3, 2015
Sarah Silverman
Sarah Silverman
stated on May 22, 2015 a social media post
Says Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has stated that supporting the "right to health care ... means you believe in slavery."
True
By Louis Jacobson • May 27, 2015
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on May 19, 2015 an interview
Says Democratic challenger Russ Feingold "was the deciding vote on Obamacare."
Mostly False
May 27, 2015
Children's Defense Fund-Texas
Children's Defense Fund-Texas
stated on April 28, 2015 a press release
"In the last 24 months, 10 rural Texas hospitals have been forced to shut their doors because state leaders" chose not to expand Medicaid.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 15, 2015
Ron Fournier
Ron Fournier
stated on May 10, 2015 a pundit panel on "Face the Nation"
Says Mike Huckabee appeared in diabetes infomercials to endorse "cures and treatments that no health agency supports."
True
By Katie Sanders • May 13, 2015
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on May 6, 2015 an interview in Washington, D.C.
"The families that are covered through the Low Income Pool is a different group of individuals than are covered by Obamacare."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • May 11, 2015
Steve Crisafulli
Steve Crisafulli
stated on April 28, 2015 an op-ed in the Tampa Bay Times
"If we choose Obamacare expansion, 600,000 will lose eligibility for their subsidies, of which 257,000 would be forced into Medicaid."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • April 30, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on April 6, 2015 a speech in Manchester N.H.
"We spent twice as much per capita for health care in this country as the next closest nation."
Mostly False
By Nick Reid • April 30, 2015
Joe Morrissey
Joe Morrissey
stated on March 25, 2015 a campaign flier.
"Rosalyn Dance voted against President Obama’s Medicaid expansion."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • April 23, 2015
Richard Corcoran
Richard Corcoran
stated on April 16, 2015 an email to constituents
"Medicaid patients were 97 percent more likely to die than those with private insurance."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • April 22, 2015
Evan Bayh
Evan Bayh
stated on April 2, 2015 an interview in Concord, N.H.
"The fastest-growing part of the Pentagon’s budget are health care expenses."
True
By Clay Wirestone • April 21, 2015
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