Latest Fact Checks

Obama goes too far when he says health reform bills have AARP endorsement

By Catharine Richert

August 12, 2009

AARP is "endorsing" the health care reform bill.

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Bachmann says Obama health adviser thinks health care ought not to be extended to the disabled

August 12, 2009

Ezekiel Emanuel, one of President Obama's key health care advisers, "says medical care should be reserved for the nondisabled. So watch out if you're disabled."

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Obama has praised single-payer plans in the past

By Angie Drobnic Holan

August 12, 2009

"I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter."

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Barack Obama promises you can keep your health insurance, but there’s no guarantee

By Angie Drobnic Holan

August 11, 2009

"If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."

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Obama is right on federal health care for janitors and senators

By Catharine Richert

August 11, 2009

The health care plan for members of Congress "is no better than the janitor who cleans their offices."

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Most Democrats are opposed to giving up their health care plans

By Catharine Richert

August 10, 2009

In every committee when the health care bill was considered, Democrats voted against an amendment that would require members of Congress and their staff to…

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Sarah Palin falsely claims Barack Obama runs a ‘death panel’

By Angie Drobnic Holan

August 10, 2009

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…

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Boehner says Democrats’ health care plan would subsidize abortions

August 7, 2009

The Democrat-backed health care reform plan "will require (Americans) to subsidize abortion with their hard-earned tax dollars."

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School health clinics would not provide abortions

By Catharine Richert

August 7, 2009

Page 992 of the health care bill will "establish school-based 'health' clinics. Your children will be indoctrinated and your grandchildren may be aborted!"

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Paul Krugman claims protests in 2005 weren’t as raucous as health care protests

By Louis Jacobson

August 7, 2009

During the 2005 fight over Social Security, "there were noisy demonstrations — but they were outside the events," and opponents were "not disruptive — crowds…

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Conservative news release says health care bill “likely” to cover sex change surgery

By Louis Jacobson

August 7, 2009

Health care reform legislation is "likely to mandate free ‘sex change’ surgeries."

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Club for Growth’s health care ad campaign is misleading

By Catharine Richert

August 6, 2009

The health care reform plan would set limits similar to the "socialized" system in Britain, where people are allowed to die if their treatment would…

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