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60 Plus Association
stated on November 7, 2011 a television commercial:

An independent payment advisory board created by in the health care reform law is "like a Medicare IRS with the power to cut Medicare in order to pay for new government programs."

By Sabrina Eaton • November 25, 2011

Newt Gingrich
stated on October 11, 2011 a Republican presidential debate:

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was right that President Barack Obama’s health care bill created what "would, in effect, be death panels."

By Willoughby Mariano • October 28, 2011

Chain email
stated on September 24, 2011 a chain e-mail:

Medicare monthly premiums will go up to $104.20 in 2012 and $247.00 in 2014 due to "provisions incorporated in the Obamacare legislation, purposely delayed so as not to 'confuse' the 2012 re-election campaigns."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 27, 2011

Chris Christie
stated on October 19, 2011 a radio interview:

Says the national heath care reform is "a government takeover of health care."

By Bill Wichert • October 23, 2011

Jon Huntsman
stated on October 11, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.:

"The IRS is already planning on 19,500 new employees to administer" Obama’s health care mandate.

By Maryalice Gill • October 13, 2011

Critics of water fluoridation
stated on October 4, 2011 a Pinellas County Commission meeting and web comments:

Say water fluoridation started in Nazi Germany ghettos and death camps to pacify the Jews.

By Becky Bowers • October 6, 2011

Mitt Romney
stated on September 5, 2011 a Republican candidates' forum in South Carolina:

The Massachusetts health care plan "dealt with 8 percent of our population," far less than the "100 percent of American people" affected by President Barack Obama’s health care law.

By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2011

Alberta Darling
stated on July 29, 2011 a TV ad and campaign flier:

Says state Rep. Sandy Pasch, her recall opponent, "voted to allow public school employees to use taxpayer dollars to pick up the tab for…Viagra."

By Dave Umhoefer • August 5, 2011

Victoria Jackson
stated on July 15, 2011 a column by Victoria Jackson:

"A clause hidden in the Obamacare bill, which is now law, gives Obama the right to form a private army."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 22, 2011

David Cicilline
stated on June 14, 2011 a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives:

The WIC program "is an incredibly cost effective program, serving nearly 10 million Americans each year and costing less than $100 per person. In my district, more than 18 percent of residents suffer from food insecurity and depend on WIC to make ends meet."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 26, 2011

Sandy Pasch
stated on June 6, 2011 an online chat:

Says U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan promised to "end health care for our seniors."

By Tom Kertscher • June 10, 2011

Rob Eissler
stated on May 23, 2011 remarks on the House floor:

"Obesity kills 34 children per hour."

By Ciara O'Rourke • May 31, 2011

Crossroads GPS
stated on May 18, 2011 a Web ad:

"Unions don’t have to comply with Obamacare."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 23, 2011

Mitt Romney
stated on May 12, 2011 a speech in Ann Arbor, Mich.:

President Obama’s health care law "represents a government takeover of health care."

By Louis Jacobson • May 13, 2011

John Boehner
stated on March 14, 2011 video:

Says the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act adopted last year contains "a series of slush funds, set up to stay on the books automatically, with little or no oversight."

By Sabrina Eaton • March 31, 2011

Kenneth McKay
stated on February 27, 2011 a TV interview:

Says Sheldon Whitehouse said on Senate floor: "Everybody in Rhode Island who disagrees with me about Obamacare is an Aryan, is a white supremacist."

By Peter Lord • March 6, 2011

Terry Gorman
stated on January 6, 2011 a radio interview:

"Illegal aliens cost the state of Rhode Island $400 million a year."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 6, 2011

One Wisconsin Now
stated on January 28, 2011 a news release:

"Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican-controlled state legislature have added over $140 million in new special interest spending"

By Tom Kertscher • February 1, 2011

William G. Batchelder
stated on January 3, 2011 a speech in the Ohio House of Representatives:

Says a "Canadian provincial prime minister came to Ohio for his medical treatment because of the delay in Canadian health care which would have endangered his life."

By Aaron Marshall • January 26, 2011

Rick Perry
stated on December 19, 2010 an interview:

Says the state's Medicaid waiver proposal "has languished in a file cabinet at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for more than two years."

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 6, 2011

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