Fact Check Posts – Page 7

Rick Scott
stated on July 2, 2012 comments on CNBC:

The Medicaid expansion is "going to cost Florida $1.9 billion a year."

By Aaron Sharockman • July 2, 2012

Rick Scott
stated on July 2, 2012 an interview on Fox News:

Says the health care law rations care, like systems in Canada and Great Britain.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 2, 2012

Rick Scott
stated on May 8, 2012 comments to the press:

Citizens Property Insurance has "over $500 billion worth of risk, with less than $10 billion worth of surplus."

By Toluse Olorunnipa • June 13, 2012

Rick Scott
stated on May 10, 2012 TV interview:

Florida has "1,200 golf courses. I think 58 million rounds played a year in Florida. We’ve got 44 percent of all travel golf in the country here. 5 million people come here just for golf."

By Katie Sanders • May 11, 2012

Rick Scott
stated on April 18, 2012 radio interview:

"About 230,000 people that were on unemployment when I took office are not on unemployment now."

By Katie Sanders • April 27, 2012

Rick Scott
stated on April 13, 2012 comments to Reuters:

"We are at a 40-year low in our crime rate in our state."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 17, 2012

Rick Scott
stated on March 26, 2012 a "Fox and Friends" interview:

Says Barack Obama's health care law "will be the biggest job-killer ever."

By Katie Sanders • April 2, 2012

Rick Scott
stated on February 24, 2012 at a public event:

PIP fraud is "$1 billion in fraud."

By Katie Sanders • March 9, 2012

Rick Scott
stated on March 6, 2012 a press conference:

"Today, you can't rely on (the retirement fund for public employees), it's not funded."

By Katie Sanders • March 7, 2012

Rick Scott
stated on February 25, 2012 an interview with WTSP:

"In some communities, for $10,000 worth of (PIP) coverage it’s $1,500 a year."

By Katie Sanders • March 2, 2012

Rick Scott
stated on February 11, 2012 speech at CPAC:

"We are poised to get rid of over 1,000 more regulations in 2012."

By Katie Sanders • February 17, 2012

Rick Scott
stated on February 11, 2012 a speech at the CPAC conference:

Florida "unemployment has dropped more than 2 percentage points, down from 12 percent to 9.9 percent, the second-largest drop in the nation."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 16, 2012

Rick Scott
stated on January 10, 2012 State of the State address:

Says the state tax burden per citizen in New York is twice as high as in Florida.

By Katie Sanders • January 11, 2012

Rick Scott
stated on January 10, 2012 his State of the State address:

"In the past year, Floridians, not government, created almost 135,000 new private sector jobs. We netted more than 120,000 total jobs in the first 11 months of 2011; the third most of any state in the nation."

By Amy Sherman • January 10, 2012

Rick Scott
stated on January 10, 2012 his State of the State address:

By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 10, 2012

Rick Scott
stated on January 10, 2012 his State of the State address:

"At my first ‘Let’s Get to Work Day’ … we sold out;" more than 240 dozen doughnuts by 8:30 a.m.

By Aaron Sharockman • January 10, 2012

Rick Scott
stated on November 17, 2011 a meeting with the "Palm Beach Post" editorial board:

The Affordable Care Act is "not the law of the land."

By Becky Bowers • December 1, 2011

Rick Scott
stated on November 14, 2011 a press release:

The United States' regulations "are among the most difficult in the world."

By Amy Sherman • November 16, 2011

Rick Scott
stated on October 10, 2011 a radio show interview:

Says adding toll lanes on I-95 in Broward County improved rush-hour traffic for non-toll lanes from 25 mph to 45 mph.

By Katie Sanders • October 28, 2011

Rick Scott
stated on October 4, 2011 an answer to reporters:

On how he measures his promise to create 700,000 private-sector jobs in seven years.

By Becky Bowers • October 4, 2011

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