Our latest guide to the health care distortions

By Bill Adair
Published on Thursday, August 6th, 2009 at 10:13 a.m.

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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.

Club for Growth, Tuesday, August 4th, 2009.

Ruling: False | Details

President Barack Obama suggested on national TV that the Democratic health care bill "will have government decide" that a healthy, 100-year-old woman in need of a pacemaker "should take a pain pill" instead.

Dan Lungren, Tuesday, July 28th, 2009.

Ruling: False | Details

"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."

Russ Carnahan, Monday, July 20th, 2009.

Ruling: False | Details

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Are you wondering about the latest claim in the health care debate? You'll probably find the answers on our health care page .

We've checked dozens of claims, including the Democrats' contention that the CBO said the plan would result in a surplus , the Republican talking point that President Barack Obama wants to provide pills instead of pacemakers , and that it would be like the British system where people are left to die if the treatment costs more than $22,000. (All three are False .)

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