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Latest Fact-Checks In Health Care

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Dan McCready
stated on August 8, 2019 in a tweet:
Says “Dan Bishop doubles down on removing coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. Under his sham ‘association health plans,’ insurance companies don’t have to pay for medications for pre-existing conditions.”
Half-True
By Paul Specht • August 23, 2019
North Carolina Healthcare Association
stated on July 7, 2019 in in a paid advertisement in the News & Observer:
Says the changes to the State Health Plan “will DENY North Carolina state employees, retirees, and their families of in-network access to critical healthcare services.”
Half-True
By Elizabeth Thompson • July 20, 2019
Rick Scott
stated on July 8, 2019 in a tweet:
“Americans are traveling to Canada to pay 12 times less for insulin than they would here in the US.”  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • July 11, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 20, 2019 in a tweet:
“30,000 Americans a year die waiting for health care because of the cost.” 
Half-True
By Shefali Luthra • June 24, 2019
Chris Coons
stated on May 14, 2019 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe.":
Obamacare granted “the protection against preexisting condition discrimination that extended to more than 150 million Americans, folks who get their health insurance through their employer.”
Half-True
By Julie Rovner • May 21, 2019
Gavin Newsom
stated on April 17, 2019 in a news release:
California is leading the nation in holding drug companies accountable and fighting prescription drug prices.  
Half-True
By Samantha Young • April 25, 2019
Julián Castro
stated on March 26, 2019 in a tweet:
Says Donald Trump’s health care policies have “left millions more Americans uninsured since he took office.”
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • March 28, 2019
Julián Castro
stated on March 12, 2019 in a tweet:
Says President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget “slashes investments in health care to pay for tax cuts to billionaires.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • March 20, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 25, 2019 in a CNN town hall event:
Says President Donald Trump “came forth with a budget — a trillion dollar cut in Medicaid, $500 billion to Medicare, and $72 billion for the Social Security Disability Fund.”
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • March 6, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 25, 2019 in a CNN town hall event:
“We have a president who wanted to throw 32 million people off of the health care they had.”
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 28, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 19, 2019 in an interview on CBS This Morning:
“In Canada, for a number of decades, they have provided quality care to all people without out-of-pocket expenses. You go in for cancer therapy, you don’t take out your wallet.”  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 22, 2019
Cory Gardner
stated on February 14, 2019 in an interview:
Says Kamala Harris said, “We will take their (health) insurance away.”  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • February 21, 2019
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on February 5, 2019 in an interview on MSNBC:
“70 percent of Americans believe in improved and expanded Medicare for All.”
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 6, 2019
José Oliva
stated on January 30, 2019 in AP legislative day in Tallahassee:
Health care is the “No. 1 reason for bankruptcy.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • January 31, 2019
Maria Cantwell
stated on January 23, 2019 in a tweet:
“7 million more Americans are uninsured now than when President Trump was elected.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2019
Bloggers
stated on December 22, 2018 in a Facebook post:
“October 2013, Obama shut down the government for 16 days to force Obamacare.”  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • January 2, 2019
Dale Kooyenga
stated on November 7, 2018 in a radio interview:
Wisconsin has “the number one health care system in the country. Everyone in poverty now has health care”  
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • November 30, 2018
Phil Scott
stated on October 10, 2018 in campaign debate:
“We had a waiting list in Chittenden County when I came into office of about 700. … We opened a new treatment hub in St. Albans, and it reduced that number to zero.”
Half-True
By Lola Duffort • November 8, 2018
House Majority PAC
stated on October 26, 2018 in a TV ad:
Says Ohio U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot “voted to cut health care for kids, affecting up to half the families at Cincinnati’s own Children’s Hospital.”
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • November 5, 2018
Ricardo Lara
stated on October 24, 2018 in full-page newspaper ads:
As California’s Insurance Commissioner, “Steve Poizner pledged to block immigrant children from ever getting MediCal health insurance.”
Half-True
By Chris Nichols, Sami Soto • October 30, 2018
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