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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Ezekiel Emanuel
Ezekiel Emanuel
stated on December 1, 2013 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
It's a good sign for Obamacare that in California, "the proportion of kids who are signing up is the proportion of kids in the population."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • December 5, 2013
James Capretta
James Capretta
stated on December 1, 2013 a broadcast of "Fox News Sunday"
Obamacare is a "massive, massive income redistribution" with "$250 billion a year in Medicaid expansion (and) in the subsidy structure that's basically being paid for by people on Medicare, through Medicare cuts, and a lot of tax increases."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • December 5, 2013
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 27, 2013 a tweet
"Why would our president close the embassy to the Vatican? Hopefully, it is not retribution for Catholic organizations opposing Obamacare."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • December 4, 2013
Timothy Dolan
Timothy Dolan
stated on December 1, 2013 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"We, the bishops of the United States -- can you believe it -- in 1919 came out for more affordable, more comprehensive, more universal health care."
True
By Julie Kliegman • December 4, 2013
Allen West
Allen West
stated on December 2, 2013 a blog on his website
"Back door gun control is in full effect in the United States" due to "Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • December 3, 2013
Doonesbury
Doonesbury
stated on December 1, 2013 a Doonesbury strip in the Sunday comics
"The economy bled $24 billion" due to the government shutdown.
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • December 3, 2013
Lynn Westmoreland
Lynn Westmoreland
stated on November 14, 2013 a tweet
"Only 536 Georgians are signed up for Obamacare while 400,000 in the state lost their health insurance."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • November 27, 2013
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on November 17, 2013 the weekly Republican address
"Republicans have proposed dozens of (health care) solutions designed to help control costs and improve quality."
Half-True
By Steve Contorno • November 26, 2013
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on November 19, 2013 a broadcast of CNN's Situation Room
Republican ideas on health care don’t give people "an option to even enroll in something that they can afford."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • November 26, 2013
Kurt Schrader
Kurt Schrader
stated on November 9, 2013 a TV interview.
On whether people can keep their insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
Half Flip
By Ian K. Kullgren • November 26, 2013
Grady Judd
Grady Judd
stated on November 19, 2013 a "Sun-Sentinel" editorial
Florida’s proposed amendment for medical marijuana would allow "people who alleged minor ailments such as muscle spasms, neck pain, back pain and even menstrual cramps (to qualify) for government-sanctioned pot-smoking."
Mostly True
By Julie Kliegman • November 25, 2013
Ken Cuccinelli
Ken Cuccinelli
stated on November 18, 2013 an interview.
Mark Warner cast "the tiebreaking vote" to pass Obamacare.
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • November 25, 2013
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on November 24, 2013 comments on Fox's "Fox News Sunday"
The Affordable Care Act alters the "sensible doctor-patient-relationship-centered health care program ... we see today."
False
By Steve Contorno • November 24, 2013
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on November 18, 2013 comments on “The Mike Huckabee Show”
"You've got more people wanting to go moose hunting in New Hampshire than want Obamacare."    
Half-True
By Jim Haddadin • November 22, 2013
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on November 21, 2013 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
"8.5 million Americans have gotten rebate checks because their insurance companies were spending too much money on executive bonuses and administrative costs and not enough on health care."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • November 21, 2013
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on November 13, 2013 in a post on Twitter
"500,000 people have signed up for #Obamacare."
Half-True
By Steve Contorno • November 20, 2013
Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton
stated on November 13, 2013 a campaign ad
Says Mark Pryor "cut Medicare to pay for Obamacare."
Half-True
By Julie Kliegman • November 19, 2013
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on November 15, 2013 a video on Cain TV
Says Thomas Jefferson said, "You might be able to fool the people for awhile, and they may go astray, but sooner or later the American people are going to wake up and they will correct the course."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • November 19, 2013
Jim Rubens
Jim Rubens
stated on November 4, 2013 an email
"In Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire has a Senator who was the deciding vote to pass Obamacare."
Mostly False
By Jim Haddadin • November 19, 2013
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 3, 2013 an image shared on Facebook
Medicare Part D "was far more expensive than the Affordable Care Act and unlike" the act, "was never budgeted."
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • November 18, 2013
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