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Statements about Health Care
Chain e-mail

Chain e-mail

Pants on Fire!

Another lie that won't die

"If you sell your house after 2012 you will pay a 3.8 percent sales tax on it."

Cecilia Muñoz

Cecilia Muñoz

Mostly True

98 percent of women who've had sex

"Most women, including 98 percent of Catholic women, have used contraception."

Stacey Campfield

Stacey Campfield

Pants on Fire!

Completely ridiculous

AIDS was transmitted to humans because "one guy" had sex with "a monkey" and then started "having sex with men."

Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich

Mostly False

Rule he's speaking of has religious exemption

"The Obama administration ... would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every Protestant institution the Obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance." 

Tennessee Democratic Party

Tennessee Democratic Party

Mostly True

Opposed entirety of 2009 stimulus, not every single part

"Congressman Phil Roe hands out $1.3M government check" from a federal program that "he voted against."

Rick Santorum

Rick Santorum

Mostly False

Top down, maybe. Not government run.

"Romneycare … is a top-down, government-run health care system."

Winning Our Future

Winning Our Future

False

Health care costs went up nationwide

"Romneycare sent costs spiraling out of control" in Massachusetts, "hiking premiums, squeezing household budgets."

Bob Corker

Bob Corker

True

That disparity is real

A typical married couple "will contribute $119,000" into Medicare but will "receive $357,000 in Medicare benefits over their lifetimes."

Rick Santorum

Rick Santorum

Mostly True

Several times

"Speaker Gingrich for 20 years supported a federal individual mandate" for health insurance.

Tom Price

Tom Price

Mostly True

Medicare is ailing and this congressman has the diagnosis

"[N]early one in three primary care doctors are forced to limit the number of Medicare patients they see."

AFSCME

AFSCME

Mostly True

Not a great chapter in the Bain story

"While Romney was a director of the Damon Corporation, the company was defrauding Medicare of millions."

Frank Lasee

Frank Lasee

False

Nowhere near 90 percent

Says that according to a study, under Obama’s health care initiative, "nearly 90 percent of people" in Wisconsin with health insurance "will have their costs go up by more than 30 percent."

Einer Elhauge

Einer Elhauge

Mostly True

And our Founding Father Presidents approved

"In 1790, the first Congress, which was packed with framers, required all ship owners to provide medical insurance for seamen; in 1798, Congress also required seamen to buy hospital insurance for themselves. In 1792, Congress enacted a law mandating that all able-bodied citizens obtain a firearm."

Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney

False

Repeal would ultimately increase deficit

Eliminating "Obamacare" ... "saves $95 billion a year."

Gwen Moore

Gwen Moore

Pants on Fire!

Contract ended, screenings didn’t

Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker eliminated "cancer screenings for uninsured women" and offered "no alternatives."  

Tom Price

Tom Price

Half-True

Upon examination, Price claim needs more detail

Congress gave an unelected board "the power to deny care to seniors."

Cory Booker

Cory Booker

True

Netherlands is next at 12 percent

Says America spends "over 17 percent of its GDP on health care costs when our closest competitor nations are spending about 12."

Rick Perry

Rick Perry

Mostly False

Figure refers to jobs never created, not jobs lost

A study says Massachusetts has lost 18,000 jobs because residents were required to obtain health insurance under an act signed into law by Mitt Romney.

Michele Bachmann

Michele Bachmann

Pants on Fire!

Nearly the opposite

Says Mitt Romney, as governor of Massachusetts, "put into place socialized medicine."

Rick Perry

Rick Perry

Mostly False

Book consistent that states should choose

Says the paperback edition of Mitt Romney's book deleted line that Massachusetts' individual mandate "should be the model for the country"

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