The Truth-O-Meter on health care: Our Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
By Angie Drobnic Holan
Published on Thursday, August 13th, 2009 at 1:29 p.m.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/aug/13/heath-care-fact-checks-greatest-hits-vol-1/Related rulings:
Ruling: Half-True / Details at link
"If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."
Barack Obama, Tuesday, August 11th, 2009.
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Ruling: Pants on Fire! | Details at link
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 their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care."
Sarah Palin, Friday, August 7th, 2009.
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Ruling: False | Details at link
The Democrat-backed health care reform plan "will require (Americans) to subsidize abortion with their hard-earned tax dollars."
John Boehner, Thursday, July 23rd, 2009.
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Ruling: False | Details at link
"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.
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Ruling: True | Details at link
"As many as 22,000 Americans die each year because they don’t have health insurance."
Bill Pascrell, Tuesday, July 28th, 2009.
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Ruling: Pants on Fire!| Details at link
"All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free health care services."
Chain e-mail, Tuesday, July 28th, 2009.
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Ruling: Pants on Fire! | Details at link
In the health care bill, "The 'Health Choices Commissioner' will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None."
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009.
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Ruling: Pants on Fire! | Details at link
"The Senate voted this week to allow illegal aliens access to Social Security benefits."
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009.
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Ruling: Pants on Fire! | Details at link
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."
Betsy McCaughey, Thursday, July 16th, 2009.
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Ruling: False | Details at link
Under a public health care option, 120 million Americans will "lose what they now get from private companies and be forced onto the government-run rolls as businesses decide it is more cost-effective for them to drop coverage."
Karl Rove, Thursday, June 11th, 2009.
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