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Dick Armey
Dick Armey
stated on August 13, 2009 in an interview with Judy Woodruff:
"If you're over 65 years old in America today, you have no choice but to be in Medicare. Even if you want out of Medicare, you have to forfeit your Social Security to get out of it."
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • August 24, 2009
Progressive Change Campaign Committee
Progressive Change Campaign Committee
stated on August 19, 2009 in their Web site:
76 percent of Americans want a public health care option.
False
By Catharine Richert • August 20, 2009
stated on August 14, 2009 in an interview on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer:
Preventive care does not save the government money.
True
By Catharine Richert • August 17, 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
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on August 13, 2009 in in a chain e-mail:
Health care reform will not affect veterans' benefits.
True
By Catharine Richert • August 14, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 in a town hall meeting.:
"I just want to assure [you] we're not talking about cutting Medicare benefits."
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • August 14, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 in a town hall on health care:
AARP is "endorsing" the health care reform bill.
Mostly False
By Catharine Richert • August 12, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2009 in a town hall meeting.:
The health care plan for members of Congress "is no better than the janitor who cleans their offices."
True
By Catharine Richert • August 11, 2009
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on August 9, 2009 in an interview with This Week.:
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 take the government-run public option as their health care plan.
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • August 10, 2009
Liberty Counsel
Liberty Counsel
stated on July 29, 2009 in a memo on the group's Web site.:
Page 992 of the health care bill will "establish school-based 'health' clinics. Your children will be indoctrinated and your grandchildren may be aborted!"
Pants on Fire!
By Catharine Richert • August 7, 2009
Club for Growth
Club for Growth
stated on August 4, 2009 in a TV ad:
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 cost more than $22,000.
False
By Catharine Richert • August 6, 2009
Public Citizen
Public Citizen
stated on July 10, 2009 in an email to supporters:
A loophole "still exists which allows members of Congress and high-powered executive branch appointees to exploit 'insider' knowledge of the financial industry in order to turn personal profit."
True
By Catharine Richert • August 6, 2009
Russ Carnahan
Russ Carnahan
stated on July 20, 2009 in a town hall meeting in Missouri.:
"The Congressional Budget Office most recently came out and analyzed the current (health care) plan and said that it was not only deficit-neutral, but also that over 10 years it would create a $6 billion surplus."
False
By Catharine Richert • August 3, 2009
Chain email
Chain email
stated on July 14, 2009 in a chain email:
"The Senate voted this week to allow illegal aliens access to Social Security benefits."
Pants on Fire!
By Catharine Richert • July 29, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2009 in a speech on health care reform:
"Doctors, nurses, hospitals, even the pharmaceutical industry, (and) AARP" say that health reform "makes sense to do."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • July 27, 2009
Betsy McCaughey
Betsy McCaughey
stated on July 16, 2009 in on the Fred Thompson radio show:
The health care reform bill "would make it mandatory — absolutely require — that every five years people in Medicare have a required counseling session that will tell them how to end their life sooner."
Pants on Fire!
By Catharine Richert • July 23, 2009
House Republican Conference
House Republican Conference
stated on July 17, 2009 in the House Republicans' Web site:
"The government is going to tell Americans they need to replace functioning stoves in their homes with 'government-certified' stoves and use taxpayer dollars to do so."
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • July 22, 2009
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 11, 2009 in his weekly radio address:
The stimulus "has delivered $43 billion in tax relief to American working families and businesses"
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • July 22, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on July 14, 2009 in a Washington Post op-ed:
On a cap-and-trade plan.
Full Flop
By Catharine Richert • July 20, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on July 14, 2009 in an op-ed article in the Washington Post.:
"Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs."
Mostly True
By Catharine Richert • July 16, 2009
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