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Latest Fact-Checks In Medicaid

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Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 1, 2013 in remarks in Austin, Texas:
"Expanding Medicaid will worsen health care options for the most vulnerable among us in Texas."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 8, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 1, 2013 in a press release jointly issued with U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz.:
"Only three in 10 Texas doctors are currently accepting new Medicaid patients."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 1, 2013
Pete Snyder
Pete Snyder
stated on March 6, 2013 in a website post.:
"A study by the University of Virginia pulls back the curtain on Medicaid’s tragically bad outcomes, including ‘increased risk of adjusted mortality.’"
Half-True
By Nancy Madsen • April 1, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 22, 2013 in remarks at a Washington, D.C. event.:
Says Houston is "home to more doctors, more nurses, more researchers than any other place in the world."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • March 21, 2013
Will Weatherford
Will Weatherford
stated on March 8, 2013 in an interview:
Eighty-five percent of Floridians who will benefit from expanding Medicaid are "single, childless adults."  
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • March 15, 2013
Christopher L. Smith
Christopher L. Smith
stated on March 5, 2013 in a speech:
Florida is "second in the nation in the uninsured."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 8, 2013
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 5, 2013 in a State of the State speech:
"For the first time in eight years, our budget also increases funding for persons with disabilities by $36 million to help more disabled people receive community-based services."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 7, 2013
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on February 4, 2013 in a news conference:
Without a Medicaid expansion, 275,000 more Ohioans could be getting their primary care in emergency rooms, costing "everybody a lot of money."
Mostly True
By Tom Feran • February 21, 2013
Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on February 11, 2013 in a letter to Ohio lawmakers:
Federal spending on entitlements "is projected to consume all revenue by 2045."
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • February 21, 2013
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on February 13, 2013 in a radio interview:
"Nobody in total is proposing cutting anything. We’re trying to reduce the rate of growth in government."
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • February 20, 2013
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on February 5, 2013 in a speech.:
"Collectively states are spending more on Medicaid than they do on K-12 education."
True
By Nancy Madsen • February 19, 2013
Texas Medical Association
Texas Medical Association
stated on December 7, 2012 in a Twitter post.:
Says 31 percent of Texas physicians accept all new Medicaid patients, down from 67 percent in 2000.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 8, 2013
Lois Kolkhorst
Lois Kolkhorst
stated on September 23, 2012 in a breakfast at the Texas Tribune Festival.:
Says that according to "many reports and even our own data," the state of Texas spent more through Medicaid on orthodontia than all other states combined.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 4, 2013
Marcia Fudge
Marcia Fudge
stated on January 1, 2013 in a news release:
The so-called doc fix in the fiscal cliff deal will cut payments "for treating illnesses disproportionately impacting minorities, including end stage renal disease and diabetes."
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • January 4, 2013
Terry Russell
Terry Russell
stated on December 6, 2012 in in an interview:
"Individuals with mental illnesses die an average of 25 years earlier than those without a mental illness."
True
By Tom Feran • January 2, 2013
Alan Grayson
Alan Grayson
stated on November 24, 2012 in a Huffington Post column:
Says Walmart employees represent the largest group of Medicaid and food stamp recipients in many states, costing the taxpayer $1,000 per worker.
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • December 6, 2012
Patricia Morgan
Patricia Morgan
stated on November 6, 2012 in a campaign flier:
"Our welfare system now consumes 42 percent of our budget."
Half-True
By John Hill • November 25, 2012
Steve Lonegan
Steve Lonegan
stated on October 24, 2012 in an op-ed on the Asbury Park Press' website:
"Sixty percent of New Jersey doctors do not accept Medicaid patients."
True
By Bill Wichert • November 14, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 22, 2012 in a debate:
Rhode Island has taken its federal Medicaid funding and shown it can run the program more cost-effectively than the federal government.
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 28, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 9, 2012 in a campaign ad:
As governor, "Mitt Romney raised nursing home fees eight times."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • October 15, 2012
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