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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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America's Health Insurance Plans
America's Health Insurance Plans
stated on March 11, 2010 an advertisement
"Health insurance companies' costs are only 4 percent of all health care spending."
True
By Louis Jacobson • March 12, 2010
Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Feinstein
stated on March 8, 2010 a New York Times article
"We are the only industrialized nation that relies heavily on a for-profit medical insurance industry to provide basic health care."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 11, 2010
Americans United for Change
Americans United for Change
stated on March 3, 2010 a recorded phone message
"Individuals and small businesses will be hit by increases in health insurance premiums as high as 39 percent."
Mostly True
March 11, 2010
Bart Stupak
Bart Stupak
stated on March 4, 2010 a Good Morning America interview
In the Senate version of the health reform bill, "Every enrollee in the Office of Personnel Management enrolled plan, every enrollee has to pay a minimum of $1 per month towards reproductive rights, which includes abortion."
False
March 11, 2010
George Will
George Will
stated on February 21, 2010 a roundtable segment on ABC's This Week
"When we started this health care debate a year ago, 85 percent of the American people had health insurance, and 95 percent of the 85 percent were happy with it."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2010
Daniel Lipinski
Daniel Lipinski
stated on January 22, 2010 a press release
The Senate version of the health care reform bill "allows taxpayer money to pay directly for abortion in federal community health centers funded in the bill."
Mostly False
March 9, 2010
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on February 25, 2010 a statement at the health care summit
The health care bill will "create 4 million jobs, 400,000 jobs almost immediately."
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • March 8, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on February 16, 2010 comments on his television show
"When Social Security started, age expectancy for the average man was 58. It was 62 -- 62 for women."
True
By Alex Holt • March 8, 2010
Alex Sink
Alex Sink
stated on March 4, 2010 an interview with interview with the St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald.
"Nobody has been talking about it (Medicaid fraud), focused on it, or paying attention to it."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • March 6, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 4, 2010 campaign speeches
On reconciliation
Full Flop
March 5, 2010
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on March 3, 2010 an interview on CNN's Larry King Live
"President Obama's bill won't bring down the costs (of health care) for average Americans -- or really for very few Americans, if any."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 5, 2010
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on March 2, 2010 the State of the State address
Cover Florida "is available to any Floridian, offering basic coverage for about $150 a month, instead of the typical $600 a month."
Mostly False
By Bill Adair, John Frank • March 3, 2010
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on March 2, 2010 the book 'No Apology'
"The lifespan of the average American is less than that of people in nations that spend far less (on health care). ... To put it bluntly, we spend more and die sooner."
True
By Louis Jacobson • March 3, 2010
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on February 28, 2010 an interview on ABC's 'This Week'
The Democrats' health care bills would end "the denial of ... coverage to those who have a pre-existing condition," while the Republican bill would not.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 3, 2010
Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of Florida
stated on February 26, 2010 a press release
U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson "compared a former vice president to a vampire ... and compared America's health care system to the Holocaust."
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • March 2, 2010
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on February 28, 2010 a roundtable segment on NBC's Meet the Press
"The Republicans have repeatedly said that they agree with 80 percent of what's in our bill."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 1, 2010
Lamar Alexander
Lamar Alexander
stated on February 25, 2010 the televised health care summit
The health care bill "dumps 15 to 18 million low-income Americans into a Medicaid program that none of us want to be a part of because 50 percent of doctors won't see new patients."
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • March 1, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 25, 2010 the televised health care summit
"The costs for families (in the individual market) for the same type of coverage that they're currently receiving would go down 14 percent to 20 percent."
Half-True
February 26, 2010
Charles Boustany
Charles Boustany
stated on February 25, 2010 a comment at the president's health care reform summit
The CBO found that the House Republican health care plan would lower premiums by "up to about 10 percent" and, for purchasers in the individual market, "those cost savings could even be higher."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 25, 2010
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on February 25, 2010 the televised health care summit
"Since 1981, reconciliation has been used 21 times. Most of it's been used by Republicans."
True
February 25, 2010
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