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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Carlos Beruff
Carlos Beruff
stated on July 6, 2016 a campaign ad
"The folks in Washington" are "already forcing you to buy government health care."
Mostly False
By Allison Graves • July 12, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 25, 2016 comments during the Houston GOP debate
"When they passed Obamacare, they put a bailout fund in Obamacare. … We led the effort and wiped out that bailout fund."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • February 26, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 21, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"
With Obamacare, "You have no options .. you can't get competitive bidding."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • February 21, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 17, 2016 comments during the South Carolina Democratic presidential debate
"I helped write" the Affordable Care Act.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 18, 2016
Chelsea Clinton
Chelsea Clinton
stated on January 12, 2016 a campaign event for Hillary Clinton
Says Bernie Sanders’ health care plan would "empower Republican governors to take away Medicaid, to take away health insurance for low-income and middle-income working Americans."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • January 14, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 1, 2015 a tweet
"Last year, I stopped an Obamacare bailout and saved taxpayers $2.5 billion."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • December 7, 2015
Heather Moore
Heather Moore
stated on November 17, 2015 a Providence Journal commentary
"Each vegan spares more than 100 animals every year."  
Mostly False
By Mark Reynolds • December 6, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on December 1, 2015 a post on her campaign website
"Ted Cruz tried to ban contraception" five times.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 2, 2015
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on September 21, 2015 an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell”
After the Texas cutoff of aid to women’s health care services including Planned Parenthood clinics, "over 150,000… women lost the only health care they had. Our Medicaid birth rate shot up. It cost taxpayers over $130 million in one year alone in extra Medicaid birth costs."
Mostly False
By Andy East • November 24, 2015
Neil Cavuto
Neil Cavuto
stated on November 12, 2015 a broadcast of "Cavuto Coast to Coast" on Fox Business Network
Taking all the money of the top 1 percent wouldn’t keep Medicare going for three years.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • November 19, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 31, 2015 a speech.
On the VA: "Over 300,000 veterans have died waiting for care."
Mostly False
By Warren Fiske • November 9, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 15, 2015 an interview
If women seeking an abortion see their ultrasound, "the odds are pretty high they're going to keep the baby."
Mostly False
July 22, 2015
NARAL Pro-Choice America
NARAL Pro-Choice America
stated on June 18, 2015 a TV ad
Says Scott Walker "said that forcing women facing abortion to get invasive ultrasounds was 'just a cool thing.'"
Mostly False
June 24, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on June 15, 2015 a speech launching his 2016 campaign
"The party in the White House" is responsible for "a massive tax increase on the middle class."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • June 23, 2015
Al Sharpton
Al Sharpton
stated on May 29, 2015 a broadcast of MSNBC's "PoliticsNation"
The Texas Senate "approved a bill to put a special label on the insurance cards of anyone who bought a plan through Obamacare" that includes the letter "S" for subsidy.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • June 3, 2015
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on May 19, 2015 an interview
Says Democratic challenger Russ Feingold "was the deciding vote on Obamacare."
Mostly False
May 27, 2015
Children's Defense Fund-Texas
Children's Defense Fund-Texas
stated on April 28, 2015 a press release
"In the last 24 months, 10 rural Texas hospitals have been forced to shut their doors because state leaders" chose not to expand Medicaid.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 15, 2015
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on May 6, 2015 an interview in Washington, D.C.
"The families that are covered through the Low Income Pool is a different group of individuals than are covered by Obamacare."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • May 11, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on April 6, 2015 a speech in Manchester N.H.
"We spent twice as much per capita for health care in this country as the next closest nation."
Mostly False
By Nick Reid • April 30, 2015
Joe Morrissey
Joe Morrissey
stated on March 25, 2015 a campaign flier.
"Rosalyn Dance voted against President Obama’s Medicaid expansion."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • April 23, 2015
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