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Chain email
Chain email
stated on February 2, 2012 a message via the Internet
"If you sell your house after 2012 you will pay a 3.8 percent sales tax on it."
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 7, 2012
Cecilia Muñoz
Cecilia Muñoz
stated on February 1, 2012 a post to the White House Blog
"Most women, including 98 percent of Catholic women, have used contraception."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • February 6, 2012
Stacey Campfield
Stacey Campfield
stated on January 26, 2012 an interview with Michelangelo Signorile on the Sirius satellite radio show “OutQ.”
AIDS was transmitted to humans because "one guy" had sex with "a monkey" and then started "having sex with men."
Pants on Fire!
By Zack McMillin • February 3, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 30, 2012 a town hall in Jacksonville, Fla.
"The Obama administration ... would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every Protestant institution the Obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance." 
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • January 31, 2012
Tennessee Democratic Party
Tennessee Democratic Party
stated on January 7, 2012 a press release
"Congressman Phil Roe hands out $1.3M government check" from a federal program that "he voted against."
Mostly True
By Michael Collins • January 29, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on January 26, 2012 a Republican presidential primary debate
"Romneycare … is a top-down, government-run health care system."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • January 27, 2012
Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on January 24, 2012 a television ad
"Romneycare sent costs spiraling out of control" in Massachusetts, "hiking premiums, squeezing household budgets."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 27, 2012
Bob Corker
Bob Corker
stated on November 8, 2011 a USA Today column.
A typical married couple "will contribute $119,000" into Medicare but will "receive $357,000 in Medicare benefits over their lifetimes."
True
By Michael Collins • January 24, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on January 23, 2012 a Republican presidential primary debate in Tampa, Fla.
"Speaker Gingrich for 20 years supported a federal individual mandate" for health insurance.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Molly Moorhead • January 24, 2012
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on December 18, 2011 Op-Ed
"[N]early one in three primary care doctors are forced to limit the number of Medicare patients they see."
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • January 24, 2012
AFSCME
AFSCME
stated on January 20, 2012 a television ad
"While Romney was a director of the Damon Corporation, the company was defrauding Medicare of millions."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 23, 2012
Frank Lasee
Frank Lasee
stated on January 9, 2012 an opinion column
Says that according to a study, under Obama’s health care initiative, "nearly 90 percent of people" in Wisconsin with health insurance "will have their costs go up by more than 30 percent."
False
January 22, 2012
Einer Elhauge
Einer Elhauge
stated on January 5, 2012 a commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine
"In 1790, the first Congress, which was packed with framers, required all ship owners to provide medical insurance for seamen; in 1798, Congress also required seamen to buy hospital insurance for themselves. In 1792, Congress enacted a law mandating that all able-bodied citizens obtain a firearm."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 13, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 8, 2012 a presidential primary debate in New Hampshire
Eliminating "Obamacare" ... "saves $95 billion a year."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Molly Moorhead • January 8, 2012
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on December 27, 2011 tweets
Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker eliminated "cancer screenings for uninsured women" and offered "no alternatives."  
Pants on Fire!
January 6, 2012
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on December 8, 2011 a letter
Congress gave an unelected board "the power to deny care to seniors."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • January 6, 2012
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on December 9, 2011 a speech in New Hampshire
Says America spends "over 17 percent of its GDP on health care costs when our closest competitor nations are spending about 12."
True
By Erin O'Neill • December 25, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on December 10, 2011 a Republican presidential debate
A study says Massachusetts has lost 18,000 jobs because residents were required to obtain health insurance under an act signed into law by Mitt Romney.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Meghan Ashford-Grooms • December 19, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on December 10, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Iowa
Says Mitt Romney, as governor of Massachusetts, "put into place socialized medicine."
Pants on Fire!
By Becky Bowers • December 11, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on December 10, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Iowa
Says the paperback edition of Mitt Romney's book deleted line that Massachusetts' individual mandate "should be the model for the country"
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • December 11, 2011
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