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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst
stated on March 21, 2010 a press release
The federal health care plan "costs Texas taxpayers $2.4 billion per year."
Mostly False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • March 27, 2010
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on March 23, 2010 comments to reporters
"The American people will be appalled to learn the health care bill exempts (congressional) leadership and committee staff."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • March 26, 2010
Kendrick Meek
Kendrick Meek
stated on March 20, 2010 campaign website
"Marco Rubio thinks that government shouldn't be in the health care business at all."
False
By Amy Sherman • March 26, 2010
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on March 24, 2010 a comment on his "Morning Joe'' program on MSNBC
The health care reform bill "is the largest tax increase in U.S. history."
False
March 25, 2010
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on March 24, 2010 a comment on the "Morning Joe'' show on MSNBC.
"Joe, I keep hearing you every morning talking about the biggest tax increase in history, but you don't mention it's also the biggest tax cut in history.''
False
March 25, 2010
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on March 24, 2010 a radio ad
In Cover Florida "thousands already enrolled and climbing."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • March 25, 2010
Orrin Hatch
Orrin Hatch
stated on March 21, 2010 an interview on CNN's State of the Union
The health care bill will subsidize families of four that make more than $80,000 a year.
True
By Louis Jacobson • March 24, 2010
Bill McCollum
Bill McCollum
stated on March 22, 2010 a press conference
Florida's cost for the Medicaid expansion will be $1.6 billion a year or more.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 23, 2010
Bart Stupak
Bart Stupak
stated on March 21, 2010 a news conference
"There will be no public funding for abortion in this legislation."
True
March 23, 2010
Bill McCollum
Bill McCollum
stated on March 23, 2010 a press release.
Florida's legal challenge of the federal health care bill is "bipartisan."
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman • March 23, 2010
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on March 7, 2010 a Fox News Sunday interview
"Hospitals, doctors, MRIs, surgeries and so forth are more extensively used and far more expensive in this country than they are in many other countries.''
Mostly True
By Alex Holt • March 22, 2010
Todd Tiahrt
Todd Tiahrt
stated on March 16, 2010 a speech on the House floor.
The Democratic health care bill will "collect higher taxes for 10 years and provide health care for only six years."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 19, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 19, 2010 a health care speech
"Americans who get their insurance through the workplace, cost savings could be as much as $3,000 less per employee than if we do nothing."
Half-True
March 19, 2010
Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of Florida
stated on March 19, 2010 a news release
The Democratic health care plan is a "government takeover of nearly 20 percent of our economy."
Pants on Fire!
By Bill Adair • March 19, 2010
John Yarmuth
John Yarmuth
stated on March 16, 2010 a speech on the House floor
A national poll found that among people who oppose the Democratic health care reform bill, "almost 40 percent" opposed it not because it goes too far, but because "they don’t think it goes far enough. ... They will not be unhappy when we pass health care reform."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 19, 2010
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on March 18, 2010 a press release
The Congressional Budget Office analysis of the health insurance reform legislation says the bill "cuts the deficit by $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years."
Half-True
March 18, 2010
Cliff Stearns
Cliff Stearns
stated on March 15, 2010 a speech on the House floor
"There is no precedent for what the Democrats are doing with this deception. ... We have never written a reconciliation bill to amend a law that does not exist."
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • March 17, 2010
Americans for Prosperity
Americans for Prosperity
stated on March 16, 2010 a TV ad
"A government panel that didn't include cancer specialists says women shouldn't receive mammograms until age 50...If government takes over health care, recommendations like these could become the law for all kinds of diseases."
Pants on Fire!
March 16, 2010
Republican Party of Texas
Republican Party of Texas
stated on March 12, 2010 an e-mail blast
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said this week that the Democrats have to pass their terrible health care bill so that the American people can actually find out what's in it."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 15, 2010
Cathie Adams
Cathie Adams
stated on February 20, 2010 a fund-raising letter
"Bill White ... supports the ‘ObamaCare’ socialized medicine plan, as well as ‘Cap and Trade’ legislation that would kill thousands of Texas jobs."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • March 14, 2010
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