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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on March 31, 2014 an online video
"Rick Scott wants to take us back to the days of insurance companies denying coverage for pre-existing conditions."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • April 4, 2014
Organizing for Action
Organizing for Action
stated on March 26, 2014 a fundraising email
A Koch brothers group is "going to college campuses, giving away free booze to try to bribe young folks out of getting health insurance."
Half-True
By Julie Kliegman • April 1, 2014
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe
stated on February 26, 2014 a radio interview.
If the legislature refuses to expand Medicaid, "27 states are going to get our money – Virginia taxpayer money – into their states to provide health care for their citizens, paid for by us."
Mostly False
By Nancy Madsen • March 31, 2014
Jack Kingston
Jack Kingston
stated on March 31, 2014 an interview
"There are still more people uninsured today than when Obama was elected president."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • March 31, 2014
Ed Schultz
Ed Schultz
stated on March 24, 2014 a broadcast of "The Ed Show"
Health insurance and medical costs "are going down because of Obamacare."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 28, 2014
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Boxer
stated on March 25, 2014 an interview on MSNBC's "Jansing & Co."
"Women take birth control, more than half of them, as a medication for other conditions."
Half-True
By Julie Kliegman • March 26, 2014
Rich Lowry
Rich Lowry
stated on March 23, 2014 a broadcast of NBC's "Meet the Press"
Most of the people who have signed up through the Obamacare exchanges "already had insurance."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 26, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 23, 2014 a video to supporters
"Americans increasingly want (the Affordable Care Act) to be repealed."
Mostly False
By Julie Kliegman • March 25, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 24, 2014 a television ad from Let's Get to Work
"Obamacare will drive 2.5 million Americans out of the workforce."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • March 25, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 24, 2014 a television ad from Let's Get to Work
Because of the federal health care law, "300,000 health plans canceled" in Florida.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • March 25, 2014
Kathleen Sebelius
Kathleen Sebelius
stated on March 11, 2014 Atlanta press conference
Says some Georgians can get health insurance for $105 a month.  
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus, Nancy Badertscher • March 25, 2014
Kathleen Sebelius
Kathleen Sebelius
stated on March 18, 2014 an oped column in the Austin American-Statesman
On HealthCare.Gov, Texan Mark Sullivan "found a good" health insurance "plan that includes dental, for less than $80 a month."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • March 24, 2014
Jimmie Massie
Jimmie Massie
stated on March 12, 2014 a Facebook post.
In Virginia’s Medicaid program, "approximately 30 percent, or $2.7 billion a year, is lost to waste, fraud and inefficiencies."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • March 23, 2014
Americans for Prosperity
Americans for Prosperity
stated on March 17, 2014 a political ad
Millions of Americans are "paying more and getting less" under Obamacare.
False
By Steve Contorno • March 20, 2014
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on March 13, 2014 a press conference
The United States has seen "a net loss of people with health insurance" because of Obamacare.
False
By Steve Contorno • March 18, 2014
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on March 18, 2014 a candidate forum
Says his Patient OPTION Act is the only Republican plan "that completely repeals Obamacare and it takes the federal bureaucrat out of decisions for you."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • March 14, 2014
John Morgan
John Morgan
stated on February 24, 2014 a medical marijuana debate at the University of Tampa
Says Cathy Jordan was "arrested" and dragged out of her home by "a SWAT team of hooligans" for using medical marijuana.
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • March 13, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2014 a Funnyordie.com "Between Two Ferns" interview with Zach Galifianakis
"Most young Americans right now, they’re not covered" by health insurance.
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 11, 2014
Allen Peake
Allen Peake
stated on March 3, 2014 a meeting
Every child in Colorado who has been given medical marijuana for treatment for seizures has had diminished seizure activity.
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • March 11, 2014
Ann McLane Kuster
Ann McLane Kuster
stated on February 20, 2014 in a radio interview
On delaying a health care mandate on business.
Half Flip
By Jim Haddadin • March 7, 2014
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