Latest Fact-Checks By Angie Drobnic Holan

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Arne Duncan
Arne Duncan
stated on August 26, 2009 in a letter to principals:
A scheduled speech by President Barack Obama will be "the first time an American president has spoken directly to the nation's school children about persisting and succeeding in school."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 3, 2009
Organizing for America
Organizing for America
stated on September 1, 2009 in a fundraising e-mail:
Over the past few months, we've learned that "we just can't count on the media to debunk" lies about health insurance reform.
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 2, 2009
Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of Florida
stated on September 1, 2009 in a press release:
Schoolchildren across the nation "will be forced to watch the president justify his plans for government-run health care, banks, and automobile companies, increasing taxes on those who create jobs, and racking up more debt than any other president."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 2, 2009
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on August 30, 2009 in an op-ed in The Washington Post:
"Since World War II, only Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton have had worse ratings after seven months than President Obama."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 31, 2009
Anthony Weiner
Anthony Weiner
stated on August 25, 2009 in an interview on "Fox and Friends":
"Under the plan, for the first five years your employer not only has to keep the coverage, but you can't migrate to the public plan."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 28, 2009
Ginny Brown-Waite
Ginny Brown-Waite
stated on August 24, 2009 in a mailing:
"Any government-run 'public' plan ... creates an entitlement that will cost another $1 trillion over the next 10 years."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 26, 2009
Ginny Brown-Waite
Ginny Brown-Waite
stated on August 24, 2009 in a mailing:
"Any government-run 'public' plan ... forces more employers to drop employee coverage due to rising costs and pay an additional 8% payroll tax for each worker."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 26, 2009
Orrin Hatch
Orrin Hatch
stated on August 20, 2009 in an interview on Fox News:
If you don't count illegal aliens, people who qualify for other insurance, and people who make more than $75,000 a year, "it leaves about 15 million people" who are uninsured.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 21, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 in a town hall meeting:
"Nearly 46 million Americans don't have health insurance coverage today."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 18, 2009
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on August 13, 2009 in a chain e-mail:
Obama's plan for health care reform "ends exorbitant out-of-pocket expenses, deductibles or co-pays."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Catharine Richert • August 14, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 in a town hall meeting in New Hampshire:
"I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 12, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 in a town hall meeting:
"If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 11, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on August 7, 2009 in a message posted on Facebook:
Seniors and the disabled "will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 10, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on July 28, 2009 in a chain e-mail:
"All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free health care services."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 30, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on July 28, 2009 in a chain e-mail:
"All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 30, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on July 28, 2009 in a chain e-mail:
In the health care bill, "The 'Health Choices Commissioner' will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 30, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2009 in a press conference:
Health insurance companies are "making record profits, right now."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 23, 2009
Investor's Business Daily
Investor's Business Daily
stated on July 15, 2009 in an editorial.:
The health care reform bill -- on Page 16 -- outlaws private insurance.
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 22, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 15, 2009 in a television interview:
On mandating health care coverage.
Full Flop
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 20, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 1, 2009 in public statements:
On a single-payer health care system.
Half Flip
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 16, 2009
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