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Latest Fact-Checks In Public Health

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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 5, 2018 a tweet
"The Democrats are pushing for Universal HealthCare while thousands of people are marching in the UK because their U system is going broke and not working."
Mostly False
By Mica Soellner • February 8, 2018
LoveThisPic.com
LoveThisPic.com
stated on February 3, 2018 a headline
"Smoking in cars with children is illegal starting January 30, 2018."
False
By Amy Sherman • February 8, 2018
Bruce Rauner
Bruce Rauner
stated on January 3, 2018 an interview with the editorial board of the Herald-News of Joliet
"The Legionella bacteria is in most water systems in Illinois."
Half-True
By Brett Chase • January 16, 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."
Mostly True
By Emily Sanderson, Tessa Weinberg • December 25, 2017
Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill
stated on November 22, 2017 a press release
"Fentanyl is now killing more Americans than heroin or any other opioid."
Half-True
By Tateanna McCaskill • December 22, 2017
Adam Putnam
Adam Putnam
stated on October 31, 2017 a speech
"The No. 1 job vacancy in Florida every month for seven years has been nursing."
True
By Allison Graves • November 8, 2017
Edward Markey
Edward Markey
stated on October 26, 2017 a statement
Says HIV and AIDS rates have spiked "due to increased heroin and fentanyl use."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • October 31, 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."
Mostly True
By Emily Sanderson, Tessa Weinberg • October 21, 2017
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on September 30, 2017 a tweet
Said there is cholera in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.  
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 2, 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."
Mostly True
By Matt Dietrich • October 2, 2017
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on September 25, 2017 an interview
"California, New York and Massachusetts, they represent about 20 percent of the population, they get close to 36 percent of Obamacare funding. It's just simply inequitable."  
Mostly False
September 29, 2017
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on September 20, 2017 an interview
The GOP’s health bill will protect people with pre-existing conditions "every bit as well as Obamacare did."  
False
September 22, 2017
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
stated on September 14, 2017 a Facebook Live town hall
Vermont had to "scrap" its single-payer health insurance program because it was "going bankrupt."  
False
September 20, 2017
Senate Leadership Fund
Senate Leadership Fund
stated on August 22, 2017 in an ad
Says Kelli Ward hosted a town hall on "chemtrail conspiracy theories" and is open to sponsoring chemtrails legislation.
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • August 25, 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."
Mostly True
By Devi Shastri • August 9, 2017
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
stated on July 20, 2017 an interview
"You have almost half the counties in America that have one provider or no provider for insurance" on the Obamacare exchanges.  
Mostly False
August 4, 2017
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on July 11, 2017 an interview with Fox Business
"More people, almost twice as many, pay the penalty or take the waiver than signed up for (Obamacare)."
False
By Chris Nichols • July 21, 2017
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on June 2, 2017 a speech
Says Donald Trump "wants to kick thousands of kids off of BadgerCare."  
Half-True
June 28, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 13, 2017 a speech
"Obamacare premiums have doubled" in Wisconsin.  
Half-True
June 15, 2017
Maram Museitif
Maram Museitif
stated on May 24, 2017 as quoted in a Central Health press release
Says Arabic "is the third most-common language in Austin."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • June 5, 2017
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