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Caleb Rowden
stated on January 20, 2017 a statement at a legislative breakfast

"And this would be the first year, if everything holds true, we will spend over $10 billion of our state budget on Medicaid out of the $28 billion budget."

Mostly True

March 12, 2017

Paul Ryan
stated on January 5, 2017 a press briefing

"Obamacare has failed."

Mostly False

February 1, 2017

Roy Cooper
stated on January 19, 2017 a speech to business leaders

Says North Carolinians are "already paying for" Medicaid expansion, even though the state hasn’t expanded Medicaid.

Mostly True

By Will Doran • January 19, 2017

Rand Paul
stated on January 15, 2017 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"

"The vast majority of people that got insurance under President Obama's Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, got it through Medicaid."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • January 15, 2017

Charles Schumer
stated on January 3, 2017 an interview on MSNBC

Says Donald Trump campaigned on not cutting Medicare and Social Security, but his nominee for the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, "made his career on cutting Medicare and Medicaid."

Mostly True

By Linda Qiu • January 10, 2017

Bryce Reeves
stated on December 4, 2016 a radio interview.

"If you’re a single mom, and you’ve two kids in the city of Richmond, you can almost make $50,000 a year on the public dole."

Mostly True

By Sean Gorman • December 19, 2016

Chris Koster
stated on August 9, 2016 an Instagram post

"A rural hospital in Missouri closes every 8 months. The legislature’s failure to expand Medicaid has brought crisis to many of Missouri’s rural health care providers."

Half-True

By Anna Maples • October 3, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 31, 2016 a speech

Says "Hillary Clinton has pledged amnesty in her first 100 days, and her plan will provide Obamacare, Social Security, and Medicare for illegal immigrants, breaking the federal budget."

Mostly False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 2, 2016

Howard Dean
stated on July 26, 2016 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention

"Mike Pence voted against expanding the Children’s Health Insurance program, which Hillary helped to start."

Mostly True

By Taylor Leighton • August 8, 2016

Jack Falanagan
stated on March 10, 2016 a speech

Says New Hampshire’s second congressional district includes two counties where "almost 5 percent if not more" of residents are enrolled in the state’s expanded Medicaid program.

True

By Clay Wirestone • April 15, 2016

Tom Price
stated on March 28, 2016 a Medium post

A study "from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, and Dartmouth concluded that Medicaid’s value to its beneficiaries is significantly lower than the actual cost of the program."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • April 8, 2016

Rick Scott's Starbucks heckler
stated on April 5, 2016 a confrontation with Rick Scott at Starbucks

Says Rick Scott "cut Medicaid" so people can't "get Obamacare."

Half-True

By Joshua Gillin • April 6, 2016

John Cortes
stated on January 13, 2016 a House Health Innovation Subcommittee meeting

"Anyone can die of a toothache."

True

By Joshua Gillin • January 26, 2016

Steven Landes
stated on December 24, 2015 a constituent survey.

Medicaid expansion "could cost the Commonwealth of Virginia over $1 billion a year..."

False

By Sean Gorman • January 11, 2016

Scott Walker
stated on August 18, 2015 a speech

Says he "turned down a Medicaid expansion under Obamacare," but because of actions he took, for the first time in Wisconsin's history "everyone living in poverty is covered under Medicaid."

Mostly True

September 2, 2015

Maggie Hassan
stated on June 16, 2015 her State of the State speech in Nashua

Six thousand people have sought addiction treatment through expanded Medicaid.

False

By Clay Wirestone • July 2, 2015

Debbie Mayfield
stated on May 4, 2015 a tweet

"Florida sends $135 billion and D.C. returns $150 billion."

Mostly True

By Joshua Gillin • May 14, 2015

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
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

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

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