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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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U.S. Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
stated on May 8, 2012 attack ad for TV:
"A Florida judge ruled parts of Obamacare unconstitutional."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • May 18, 2012
Crossroads GPS
Crossroads GPS
stated on May 16, 2012 a television ad:
President Obama "promised" families making less than $250,000 a year would not see taxes go up, but "Obamacare raises 18 different taxes."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 17, 2012
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
stated on May 9, 2012 a TV ad:
"20 million people could lose their current coverage" … "including our senior citizens who are on Medicare."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 15, 2012
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
stated on May 9, 2012 a TV ad:
"Seniors will see $500 billion in Medicare cuts to fund Obamacare."
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman • May 15, 2012
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on April 28, 2012 a conference call with reporters:
Says the health care reform bill was paid for, in part, by taking money from students and the student loan system.
Half-True
By Stephen Koff • May 14, 2012
Jennifer Williamson
Jennifer Williamson
stated on May 3, 2012 a campaign mailer:
Says "One-third of our healthcare dollars go to wasteful insurance billing and bureaucracy."
Mostly True
By Ian K. Kullgren • May 11, 2012
Frank Lautenberg
Frank Lautenberg
stated on May 3, 2012 a video posted on YouTube:
"Just remember this: the president's health care bill put 30 million people on health care rolls that weren't there before."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert • May 11, 2012
Betty Sutton
Betty Sutton
stated on May 1, 2012 a campaign email:
Jim Renacci "voted repeatedly to end Medicare."
False
By Tom Feran • May 11, 2012
Saxby Chambliss
Saxby Chambliss
stated on April 11, 2012 a speech:
The fastest-rising expense in the U.S. Defense Department is health care.
True
By Eric Stirgus • May 2, 2012
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 19, 2012 a Facebook post:
"In 1993 the Republicans embraced a health platform that proudly features an individual mandate as its main component."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2012
Roger Williams
Roger Williams
stated on April 11, 2012 a campaign mailer.:
"The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office concluded ObamaCare will cost the U.S. more than 800,000 jobs."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 17, 2012
Matthew Hill
Matthew Hill
stated on March 29, 2012 a debate on the state House floor.:
Says abortion doctors are "flying into this state, performing abortions and flying out."
False
By Tom Humphrey • April 12, 2012
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on April 4, 2012 a news release:
Sen. Sherrod Brown’s vote helped pass "Barack Obama’s job-killing health care law, which slapped small businesses throughout Ohio with a $500 billion tax increase."
Pants on Fire!
By Stephen Koff • April 12, 2012
Jefferson Smith
Jefferson Smith
stated on March 10, 2012 a candidates' forum.:
Says "at the state level we're spending more on tax expenditures than we are on public safety, health care and education combined."
Mostly True
By Ian K. Kullgren • April 10, 2012
stated on March 27, 2012 a blog post:
Says Obama health reform law denies millions "access to affordable insurance."
False
By Tom Kertscher • April 8, 2012
Amy Handlin
Amy Handlin
stated on April 4, 2012 an opinion piece in the Times of Trenton:
Says under the Affordable Care Act, New Jersey’s "new (Medicaid) enrollees won’t qualify for the matching federal funds simply because we added them onto the rolls before 2014."
Mostly False
By Bill Wichert • April 8, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on April 4, 2012 a speech to the Newspaper Association of America:
Says Barack Obama "is the only president to ever cut $500 billion from Medicare."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • April 4, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 2, 2012 a Rose Garden press conference:
If the Supreme Court throws out the federal health care law, it "would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress."
False
By Molly Moorhead • April 4, 2012
Donald Verrilli
Donald Verrilli
stated on March 27, 2012 a Supreme Court hearing on health care law:
Says when New Jersey adopted guaranteed coverage and cost provisions without a mandate individual health insurance market rates "doubled or tripled" and enrollment dropped from 180,000 people to 80,000 people.
Mostly True
By Erin O'Neill • April 4, 2012
Rick Scott
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."
False
By Katie Sanders • April 2, 2012
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