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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Chain email
Chain email
stated on May 29, 2013 a chain email:
Says the word "Dhimmitude" is on page 107 of the health care law and means "Muslims are specifically exempted from the government mandate to purchase insurance."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 30, 2013
Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island
Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island
stated on April 18, 2013 a fundraising letter:
"Half of all hospitalized seniors are suffering from malnutrition so severe that it either caused their illness or it prevents them from getting better."
Mostly False
By Michael McKinney • May 26, 2013
Carolyn Tomei
Carolyn Tomei
stated on May 15, 2013 a House floor speech:
Says, "In Oregon in 2010, 49 percent of all pregnancies were unintended."
Mostly True
By Janie Har • May 24, 2013
Ron Maag
Ron Maag
stated on April 12, 2013 a statement during a state House Finance and Appropriations Committee hearing:
 "Forty-six cents of every dollar" Ohio could get for Medicaid expansion "is going to come from China or some other country that doesn’t like us very much."
False
By Stephen Koff • May 22, 2013
Robert Deuell
Robert Deuell
stated on May 13, 2013 remarks on the floor of the Texas Senate.:
Says it's "estimated that 300 babies a year are sent home from the hospital with an unrecognized congenital heart defect; it is the most common birth defect in America."                   
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 21, 2013
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on May 15, 2013 an interview on Fox News' "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren:
The IRS is going to be "in charge" of "a huge national database" on health care that will include Americans’ "personal, intimate, most close-to-the-vest-secrets."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • May 20, 2013
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on May 15, 2013 an interview on Fox News' "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren:
The IRS is "going to be in charge of our health care."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 20, 2013
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on May 15, 2013 an interview on Fox News' "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren:
"The IRS will have the ability potentially" to deny or delay health care.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 20, 2013
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on May 13, 2013 an interview on MSNBC:
"The Affordable Care Act is bringing the cost of health care in our country down."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • May 16, 2013
Will Weatherford
Will Weatherford
stated on May 9, 2013 an op-ed:
"Expanding Medicaid would require borrowing more money, drastically expanding our deficit."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • May 16, 2013
Jeff Wagner
Jeff Wagner
stated on May 8, 2013 a radio show:
"The State of Wisconsin thinks you should have to" wash your hands "at least 28 times to make one peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • May 16, 2013
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on April 30, 2013 a press release:
U.S. Rep. John Barrow of Georgia has helped support the implementation of "Obamacare."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • May 10, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 30, 2013 a White House news conference:
For people with insurance, the only impact of the health care law "is that their insurance is stronger, better and more secure than it was before. Full stop. That's it. They don't have to worry about anything else."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • May 2, 2013
Ted Poe
Ted Poe
stated on April 25, 2013 an interview on Fox Business Network:
Says new Medicare billing guidelines "have nine codes for (injuries by) turkeys."
True
By Becky Bowers • April 30, 2013
Nelson Wolff
Nelson Wolff
stated on April 1, 2013 a Texas Capitol press conference.:
Says uncompensated health care costs absorbed by Texas hospitals are adding $1,800 a year to Texas private insurance rates.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 17, 2013
Virginia Society for Human Life
Virginia Society for Human Life
stated on April 3, 2013 a statement.:
Under Obamacare, Virginia taxpayers would have been "forced to pay for abortions" if the General Assembly had not recently intervened.  
False
By Sean Gorman • April 15, 2013
NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia
NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia
stated on March 26, 2013 a statement.:
Abortion coverage is a standard insurance benefit "in nearly 90 percent of private plans sold in the U.S."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • April 15, 2013
Lon Burnam
Lon Burnam
stated on March 4, 2013 a press release:
Says rejecting federal aid to expand Medicaid in Texas will "send $9 billion in federal taxes paid by Texans to other states to insure their working poor."
False
By Sue Owen • April 12, 2013
Michele Walsh
Michele Walsh
stated on April 4, 2013 a radio discussion:
"Within the three miles surrounding the University Circle area, infant mortality exceeds some Third World countries."
True
By Tom Feran • April 12, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on March 14, 2013 a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference:
Says Obama called Medicaid "broken" four years ago.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • April 9, 2013
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