Fact Check Posts – Page 78

Lamar Alexander
stated on September 16, 2009 a press release:

The Obama administration's cap-and-trade plan would create "a $1,761 yearly energy tax."

By Catharine Richert • September 18, 2009

Health Care for America Now
stated on September 15, 2009 a television advertisement:

Health insurance companies deny "1 out of 5 treatments prescribed by doctors."

By Louis Jacobson • September 18, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 a speech to a joint session of Congress:

Insurers delayed an Illinois man's treatment, "and he died because of it."

By Louis Jacobson • September 17, 2009

Howard Dean
stated on September 13, 2009 remarks on NBC's Meet the Press:

"Every other democracy in the world has a health care system that covers everybody, and we don't."

By Louis Jacobson • September 15, 2009

Thomas Sowell
stated on September 8, 2009 a column in Investor's Business Daily.:

The Obama administration "was successful in rushing a massive spending bill through Congress in just two days — after which it sat on the president's desk for three days, while he was away on vacation."

By Ian Jannetta • September 15, 2009

Chain email
stated on August 24, 2009 a message forwarded to many people:

A new bill "was written into the new health care reform initiative ensuring that Congress will be 100 percent exempt."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 11, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 a speech to Congress:

Health reform will "give every American the same opportunity" to buy health insurance the way members of Congress do.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 10, 2009

Joe Wilson
stated on September 9, 2009 the audience at a joint session of Congress:

"You lie!" (in response to President Obama saying health reform would not insure illegal immigrants.)

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 10, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on September 9, 2009 a speech to Congress:

Preventive care "saves money."

By Catharine Richert • September 10, 2009

John Carter
stated on August 31, 2009 a column by the Texas Republican on the Web site of the Christian Coalition of America:

"The Obama Administration's own White House Council of Economic Advisers has estimated 4.7 million Americans will lose their jobs if the (health care) bill passes."

By Louis Jacobson • September 8, 2009

Arne Duncan
stated on August 26, 2009 a letter to principals:

A scheduled speech by President Barack Obama will be "the first time an American president has spoken directly to the nation's school children about persisting and succeeding in school."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 3, 2009

Investor's Business Daily
stated on September 2, 2009 an editorial:

"Cap-and-trade is wildly unpopular with Americans."

By Catharine Richert • September 3, 2009

Howard Dean
stated on August 25, 2009 an interview on the Rachel Maddow Show:

"All the really great programs in American history, Social Security, was done without Republicans. Medicare was done without Republican support until the last vote where they realized they had to get on board."

By Catharine Richert • August 28, 2009

Howard Dean
stated on August 9, 2009 an appearance on ABC's "This Week":

"There's no rationing in any of these bills."

By Robert Farley • August 25, 2009

John Boehner
stated on August 18, 2009 a press release:

The health bill's plan for comparative effectiveness research "would be used by the government to ration care."

By Robert Farley • August 25, 2009

Barack Obama
stated on August 20, 2009 a forum with supporters:

"If we went back to the obesity rates that existed back in the 1980s, the Medicare system over several years could save as much as a trillion dollars."

By Louis Jacobson • August 24, 2009

Bernie Sanders
stated on August 19, 2009 an appearance on the Rachel Maddow Show:

"We spend twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation on Earth."

By Louis Jacobson • August 20, 2009

Progressive Change Campaign Committee
stated on August 19, 2009 their Web site:

76 percent of Americans want a public health care option.

By Catharine Richert • August 20, 2009

Sarah Palin
stated on August 12, 2009 her Facebook page:

A provision in the health care reform bill for end-of-life counseling for seniors is not "entirely voluntary."

By Robert Farley • August 13, 2009

Michele Bachmann
stated on July 27, 2009 a statement on the House floor:

Ezekiel Emanuel, one of President Obama's key health care advisers, "says medical care should be reserved for the nondisabled. So watch out if you're disabled."

By Robert Farley • August 12, 2009

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