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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 1, 2012 an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation"
The United States has "the best health care delivery system in the world."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 5, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on June 29, 2012 a TV interview with Greta Van Susteren
A company with "20 employees" could go "out of business" because of health care law requirements to buy insurance.
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Sanders, Tia Mitchell • July 3, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on July 2, 2012 comments on CNBC
The Medicaid expansion is "going to cost Florida $1.9 billion a year."  
False
By Aaron Sharockman • July 2, 2012
Rick Scott
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.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 2, 2012
George Allen
George Allen
stated on June 16, 2012 a speech.
President Obama's health care law is "a government takeover of healthcare."  
False
By Sean Gorman • July 1, 2012
Barry Hinckley
Barry Hinckley
stated on June 28, 2012 a fundraising letter
President Obama’s health-care law will "add trillions of dollars in debt."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 30, 2012
Becky Moeller
Becky Moeller
stated on June 28, 2012 a statement reacting to the Supreme Court decision upholding the law.
Says the federal health care law upheld by the Supreme Court "has improved or saved the lives of more than 4,000 Texans" otherwise prevented from obtaining health coverage due to pre-existing conditions.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 29, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 28, 2012 a speech at the White House
"If you're one of the more than 250 million Americans who already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 29, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on June 28, 2012 a speech in Washington, D.C.
"Obamacare … means that for up to 20 million Americans, they will lose the insurance they currently have, the insurance that they like and they want to keep."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 29, 2012
Mark Neumann
Mark Neumann
stated on June 20, 2012 an interview
Says "Barack Obama and his team" are "socialists in every respect of the word."
Pants on Fire!
June 29, 2012
Jon Runyan
Jon Runyan
stated on June 28, 2012 a press release
Says there are "$500 billion in Medicare cuts required to pay for this flawed [health care law]."
Mostly False
By Erin O'Neill • June 29, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on June 28, 2012 a press conference
"Obamacare adds trillions to our deficits and to our national debt."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 28, 2012
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on June 28, 2012 a tweet
Obama "said (the individual mandate) wasn't a tax."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 28, 2012
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on June 28, 2012 comments on his radio show
"Obamacare is . . . the largest tax increase in the history of the world."
Pants on Fire!
By Aaron Sharockman • June 28, 2012
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on June 7, 2012 a speech
Says U.S. Senate rival Tommy Thompson said he wants to "do away with Medicare."
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • June 28, 2012
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on June 9, 2012 her speech at Texas Democratic Party State Convention in Houston
Says because of Texas lawmakers’ choices, "hundreds of thousands of women no longer have access to basic medical care, life-saving cancer screenings and contraception."
Half-True
By Sue Owen • June 27, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on June 7, 2012 a television ad
Federal health care reforms amounted to ‘the government takeover of health care.’
Pants on Fire!
By James B. Nelson • June 24, 2012
Lamar Alexander
Lamar Alexander
stated on June 18, 2012 prepared remarks at a Congressional field hearing.
"Three of our cities are among the top five worst cities in the U.S. for asthma."
True
By Zack McMillin • June 24, 2012
American Crossroads
American Crossroads
stated on June 13, 2012 a TV ad.
Tim Kaine urged "$500 billion in Medicare cuts."
False
By Nancy Madsen • June 20, 2012
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 13, 2012 a Facebook post
"Romneycare covers abortion, illegal immigrants and has a public option. Obamacare does not."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • June 18, 2012
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