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Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on December 8, 2010 a newspaper interview
The impact of the 2010 federal health care legislation will be "huge" on Georgia.
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • January 21, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on January 19, 2011 a bill introduced on the House floor.
The health care law is "job killing."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 20, 2011
Michael Burgess
Michael Burgess
stated on December 28, 2010 an interview.
Says 2010 was the "worst year ever for America's doctors" reimbursed by Medicare.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • January 20, 2011
Jim Sensenbrenner
Jim Sensenbrenner
stated on January 16, 2011 an interview after a town hall meeting
"We had a debate on whether ‘ObamaCare’ was the way to go to fix up health care and the American voters said no -- emphatically."
Mostly False
By James B. Nelson • January 20, 2011
Chris Van Hollen
Chris Van Hollen
stated on January 18, 2011 comments on the House floor
Between 2000 and 2006,  "health insurance company profits quadrupled."  
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 19, 2011
Chris Van Hollen
Chris Van Hollen
stated on January 18, 2011 comments on the House floor
"Between the year 2000 and 2006, (insurance) premiums in this country doubled."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 19, 2011
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on December 31, 2010 a CNN interview
Says that before health care reform, one of every three health care dollars spent -- more than $800 billion a year -- didn't go for health care.
Mostly True
By Tom Feran • January 18, 2011
Ohio Alliance for Retired Americans
Ohio Alliance for Retired Americans
stated on January 10, 2011 a news release
Says Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is hypocritical for challenging the constitutionality of the new health care law.
False
By Stephen Koff • January 17, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on January 6, 2011 a statement.
The health care reform law "offset[s] 6 years of benefits with 10 years of tax increases."
Half-True
By Wes Hester • January 15, 2011
Jeff Fitzgerald
Jeff Fitzgerald
stated on December 27, 2010 a television interview
Says 15,000 IRS employees "have to be added to administer ‘ObamaCare’ and look at the tax implications."
Mostly False
January 14, 2011
Robert Hagan
Robert Hagan
stated on December 8, 2010 a speech in the Ohio House of Representatives
Ohio taxpayers spent more than $67 million "for the year" on food stamps and Medicaid for Wal-Mart workers
Half-True
By Joe Guillen • January 12, 2011
Allen West
Allen West
stated on January 2, 2011 a Fox News TV show
"We had an amendment in the health care law that said the federal government is going to take over education."  
False
By Amy Sherman • January 11, 2011
Pat Mullins
Pat Mullins
stated on January 3, 2011 a letter.
New provisions of the health care law bar the use of flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts to pay for aspirin and other non-prescription health needs. 
True
By Wes Hester • January 7, 2011
Rick Perry
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."
Pants on Fire!
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 6, 2011
Marie Ghazal
Marie Ghazal
stated on December 17, 2010 a commentary in The Providence Journal
"Rhode Island has the highest percentage of uninsured adults of any state in New England."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 4, 2011
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on December 16, 2010 a news release.
The tax-cut deal "adds more than $800 billion to the deficit over two years -- more than the cost of TARP and more than the cost of the Recovery Act" and about the same as health care reform.
Mostly True
By Wes Hester • December 27, 2010
Bob Marshall
Bob Marshall
stated on December 13, 2010 a news release.
Those who fail to buy health insurance under "Obamacare" face the threat of jail time.  
Pants on Fire!
By Wes Hester • December 20, 2010
Robert Hurt
Robert Hurt
stated on December 13, 2010 a news release.
The Democrats' health care reform law is a "government takeover of health care."
False
By Wes Hester • December 16, 2010
George W. Bush
George W. Bush
stated on November 9, 2010 his book, "Decision Points."
Says that in his first 17 months as president, the United States doubled its world-leading $500 million a year commitment to fighting global AIDS.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 16, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 13, 2010 a television interview
"When Social Security was passed, there were all kinds of lawsuits," just as there have been in the legal battle over the new health care law.
True
By Louis Jacobson • December 15, 2010
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