Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 25, 2015 a speech about the Affordable Care Act.
"By one leading measure, what business owners pay out in wages and salaries is now finally growing faster than what they spend on health insurance" for the first time in 17 years.
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By Linda Qiu • June 30, 2015
Steve Crisafulli
Steve Crisafulli
stated on April 28, 2015 an op-ed in the Tampa Bay Times
"If we choose Obamacare expansion, 600,000 will lose eligibility for their subsidies, of which 257,000 would be forced into Medicaid."
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By Joshua Gillin • April 30, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 25, 2015 a speech
The Affordable Care Act is "a major reason why we’ve seen 50,000 fewer preventable patient deaths in hospitals."
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By Louis Jacobson • March 31, 2015
Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on March 13, 2015 a television interview
"Rhode Island has the second highest per enrollee (Medicaid) cost of any state in the country, which is 60 percent higher than the national average."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 29, 2015
Texas Democratic Party
Texas Democratic Party
stated on February 12, 2015 a press release
More than 1 million Texans live without affordable health care because Rick Perry failed to "partner with the Legislature to find a Texas solution to closing the coverage gap."
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By W. Gardner Selby • March 1, 2015
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on December 11, 2014 an interview
Two-thirds of the federal budget is "permanent law ... it's permanently appropriated."
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December 19, 2014
Ed Schultz
Ed Schultz
stated on November 13, 2014 a broadcast of MSNBC's "The Ed Show"
Repeal of Obamacare would "take away health care for 10.3 million Americans" who have received coverage since Oct. 1, 2013.
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By Jon Greenberg • November 18, 2014
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on November 5, 2014 a broadcast of "Hannity" on Fox News
Every new Republican member of the U.S. Senate said they "will vote to repeal and replace Obamacare."
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By Jon Greenberg • November 10, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on September 17, 2014 a TV ad
"Weeks after accepting a quarter-million-dollar campaign contribution" from a hospital board chairman, Greg Abbott went to court against victims of a drug-taking neurosurgeon.
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 15, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 2, 2014 a speech at Northwestern University
The cost of "health care is now the single-biggest factor driving down" the federal budget deficit.
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By Lauren Carroll • October 8, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on October 1, 2014 a TV ad
Says Rick Scott signed "laws requiring mandatory ultrasounds and restricting access to abortion even in cases of rape or incest."
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By Amy Sherman • October 7, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on September 9, 2014 a TV ad
Says Rick Scott "thinks employers should be able to deny women coverage for birth control."
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By Amy Sherman • September 11, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 21, 2014 a news article
Says his "Act 10 reforms" have "saved the taxpayers some $3 billion."
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August 20, 2014
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on July 22, 2014 an interview with a Las Vegas news network
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit compared the health care law to buying a pepperoni and ham pizza from Domino's or Pizza Hut.
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By Steve Contorno • July 24, 2014
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
stated on June 30, 2014 a dissenting opinion in "Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby"
"Women of childbearing age spend 68 percent more in out-of-pocket health care costs than men."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 2, 2014
Sally Kohn
Sally Kohn
stated on June 30, 2014 a segment on CNN
"Hobby Lobby provided this (birth control) coverage before they decided to drop it to file suit."
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By Katie Sanders • July 1, 2014
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on June 30, 2014 a statement to the media
"Nearly 60 percent of women who use birth control do so for more than just family planning."
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By Amy Sherman • June 30, 2014
Dave Marsden
Dave Marsden
stated on June 14, 2014 a radio interview.
After Massachusetts passed a mandatory health insurance law "their mortality rate went down...it saved lives."
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By Sean Gorman • June 27, 2014
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 10, 2014 her book, "Hard Choices"
"By the time I left" the State Department, "economic growth was up and opium production was down" in Afghanistan, while "infant mortality declined" and school enrollment rose by more than sevenfold.
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By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2014
Don't Let Florida Go To Pot
Don't Let Florida Go To Pot
stated on May 20, 2014 the group's website
"Less than 5 percent of registered users in states allowing medical marijuana have cancer or AIDS."
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By Joshua Gillin • May 29, 2014
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