Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on June 22, 2018 a tweet
"Pat Morrisey joined a federal lawsuit to allow insurance companies to deny coverage for people with pre-existing conditions."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 26, 2018
Dana Wachs
Dana Wachs
stated on April 11, 2018 an interview
Says Scott Walker "has turned down $1 billion of Medicaid money over the course of his tenure."
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June 15, 2018
Lupe Valdez
Lupe Valdez
stated on May 7, 2018 an online survey
"After Texas cut" its "two-year family planning budget by $73 million, one in four clinics closed their doors."
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 14, 2018
Lupe Valdez
Lupe Valdez
stated on May 23, 2018 a New York Times news story
"One in six Texans don’t have health care. We’re the most uninsured state in the U.S."
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By W. Gardner Selby • May 31, 2018
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on April 9, 2018 a speech to the City Club of Cleveland
"Right now in Ohio 200,000 people are getting opioid treatment because they have insurance under the Affordable Care Act."
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By Amy Sherman • April 20, 2018
Florida Democratic Party
Florida Democratic Party
stated on April 17, 2018 a tweet
"X marks the spot at every HCA location where (Gov. Rick Scott) probably defrauded taxpayers."
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By Allison Graves • April 19, 2018
Cora Faith Walker
Cora Faith Walker
stated on November 9, 2017 a guest commentary in the St. Louis American
"The average life expectancy for African Americans in Saint Louis and Saint Louis County varies by as much as 18 years compared to the white population, with nearly half of all African-American kids under the age of 18 living in poverty."
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By Emily Sanderson, Tessa Weinberg • December 25, 2017
Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt
stated on October 13, 2017 a speech
Missouri "is leading the country when it comes to improving services for mental and behavioral health. Innovation is happening right here." 
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By Carolina Vargas • December 15, 2017
John Thune
John Thune
stated on November 15, 2017 an interview on Fox News
"80 percent of the (individual mandate) tax falls on those who make $50,000 a year or less."  
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By Jon Greenberg • November 17, 2017
Eric Greitens
Eric Greitens
stated on August 13, 2017 a Facebook live video
"Seventy-three percent of our veterans are graduating from drug courts. By contrast, I think most of the people in the very good drug court program — the graduation rate’s like 53, 55 percent. The point of that is that drug courts are working for veterans."
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By Emily Sanderson, Tessa Weinberg • October 21, 2017
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on September 22, 2017 a letter to a constituent
Says that under the Obamacare law, health insurance "premiums have increased by more than 105 percent since" 2013.
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 4, 2017
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on September 18, 2017 a website
"The soda tax can make a difference by reducing consumption of unhealthy soda pop and sugary beverages."
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By Matt Dietrich • October 2, 2017
Sean Patrick Maloney
Sean Patrick Maloney
stated on August 3, 2017 a radio interview
"Most people on Medicaid are kids, or seniors, or the disabled."
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By Dan Clark • August 23, 2017
Stacey Evans
Stacey Evans
stated on August 5, 2017 a statement sent to the Atlanta Journal Constitution
There are"thousands of Georgia workers that are misclassified as independent contractors," who lose benefits, including health care.  
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By Jon Greenberg • August 10, 2017
Mike Gallagher
Mike Gallagher
stated on July 9, 2017 a TV interview
"We’re spending 18 percent of our GDP on healthcare while the average among industrialized countries is closer to 8 percent."
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By Devi Shastri • August 9, 2017
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on June 4, 2017 a television interview
"In the ‘40s, 68 cents of every health care dollar was actually paid for by the patient, today it’s only 11 cents."
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By D.L. Davis • July 19, 2017
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on July 13, 2017 a video
"One in three people who’s receiving treatment for (opioid) drug problems gets some help from Medicaid to pay for that."
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By Manuela Tobias • July 18, 2017
Shawn Thierry
Shawn Thierry
stated on June 7, 2017 a press release
"Texas mothers are dying during childbirth at the highest rates in the nation."
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 29, 2017
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 25, 2017 an interview on "Meet the Press"
"When you throw 23 million people off of health insurance -- people with cancer, people with heart disease, people with diabetes -- thousands of people will die. … This is study after study making this point."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2017
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 22, 2017 a Facebook post
The Senate bill "hands enormous tax cuts to the rich and to the drug and insurance industries, paid for by cutting health care for everybody else."
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By John Kruzel • June 26, 2017
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