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Tom Price

Tom Price

Rep. Tom Price is the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration. Previously, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives for the 6th District of Georgia, an area that includes Marietta and Canton.

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Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on May 10, 2017 press conference about opioid addiction
"I think if you look at the entire federal government and the president’s commitment to (fighting opioid addiction), you’ll see that there are actually hundreds of millions of dollars increase on this issue."
Half-True
By Ella Nilsen • May 26, 2017
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on May 7, 2017 an interview on CNN's State of the Union
"We have got 20 million folks out there across this land who have told the federal government, ‘Phooey, nonsense, I’m not going to participate in your program, because it doesn’t do what I need done.’ "
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • May 8, 2017
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on March 12, 2017 an interview on "Meet the Press"
"The number of individuals who actually got coverage through the exchange who didn't have coverage before, or who weren't eligible for Medicaid before is relatively small. So we've turned things upside down completely for 3 million, or 4 million, or 5 million individuals."
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By Aaron Sharockman • March 12, 2017
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on March 7, 2017 a press briefing
The Obama administration said "they were going to be able to drive folks away from one of the most expensive areas for the provision of health care, and that is the emergency rooms. In fact, they did just the opposite."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2017
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on November 30, 2016 a speech
"In the last five years only one out of 60 -- one out of 60 -- appropriations bills has been passed on time before the end of the fiscal year."
Mostly True
By Ariella Phillips • December 21, 2016
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on March 28, 2016 a post on Medium
Says the Congressional Budget Office "is expecting a protracted economic malaise for at least the next decade under current policies."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 11, 2016
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on March 28, 2016 a Medium post
A study "from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, and Dartmouth concluded that Medicaid’s value to its beneficiaries is significantly lower than the actual cost of the program."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 8, 2016
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on March 18, 2015 the 2016 Budget Resolution from House Budget Committee
Under current conditions, by 2023, the interest payments on the national debt will be $722 billion, larger than the projected defense spending of $696 billion.
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By April Hunt • March 27, 2015
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on August 14, 2013 Twitter posts
Americans spend more than $160 billion and 6 billion hours per year complying with the tax code.
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By Janel Davis • September 4, 2013
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on May 1, 2013 a tweet
Says President Barack Obama’s proposed budget includes two new tax increases that would collect about $14 billion.
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • May 17, 2013
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on January 2, 2013 a radio interview
The fiscal cliff deal "increased spending."
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • January 15, 2013
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on January 2, 2013 a radio interview
The fiscal cliff deal "ultimately raised taxes."
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • January 11, 2013
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on June 29, 2012 a television interview
Sixteen thousand new Internal Revenue Service agents will be "empowered to enforce" the new health care legislation.
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • July 10, 2012
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on March 14, 2012 a press release
New federal projections estimate that the health care overhaul "will cost $1.76 trillion over 10 years -- well above the $940 billion Democrats originally claimed."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • March 27, 2012
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on December 18, 2011 Op-Ed
"[N]early one in three primary care doctors are forced to limit the number of Medicare patients they see."
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • January 24, 2012
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on December 8, 2011 a letter
Congress gave an unelected board "the power to deny care to seniors."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • January 6, 2012
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on July 24, 2011 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union with Candy Crowley"
"The U.S. won't default, because default means that you don't pay your creditors. And it takes about 10 percent of the money that's coming in right now" to pay interest to bondholders.
False
By Louis Jacobson, Willoughby Mariano • July 26, 2011
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on January 29, 2010 a Republican retreat in Baltimore
"Mr. President, multiple times from your administration there have come statements that Republicans have no ideas and no solutions" on health care.
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By Bill Adair • January 29, 2010
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on September 14, 2009 a fundraising letter
"Medicare began as a public option and now holds 97 percent of the market share."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 16, 2009
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Latest Fact-Checks About Tom Price

Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on January 3, 2017 an interview on MSNBC
Says Donald Trump campaigned on not cutting Medicare and Social Security, but his nominee for the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, "made his career on cutting Medicare and Medicaid."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • January 10, 2017
Campaign for Liberty - Georgia
Campaign for Liberty - Georgia
stated on August 23, 2013 a flier
Says U.S. Rep. Tom Price is sending letters both supporting and opposing the "small-business killing Internet Tax Mandate."
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By Eric Stirgus • September 9, 2013
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