Statements about Health Care

Scott Walker

"Here in Wisconsin, we've put in previous budgets more money into mental health services than any governor has in the last 25 years."  

— Wisconsin

Paul Ryan

The Affordable Care Act is "making families pay double-digit premium increases."

— National

Bernie Sanders

The United States spends "almost three times per capita what they spend in the U.K." on health care and "50 percent more than they pay in France."

— National

Marco Rubio

"Last year, I stopped an Obamacare bailout and saved taxpayers $2.5 billion."

— Florida

Heather Moore

"Each vegan spares more than 100 animals every year."  

— Rhode Island

Hillary Clinton

"Ted Cruz tried to ban contraception" five times.

— National

Bill Maher

"15 years ago, cancer drugs cost an average of $10,000 a year. Now it’s $10,000 a month."

— PunditFact

Ron Johnson

"Probably less than 4 percent" of Wisconsin residents "are enjoying the subsidies" from Obamacare.

— Wisconsin

Russ Feingold

"Ron Johnson said specifically that he hopes the first steps occur to privatize the" Veterans Administration.  

— Wisconsin

Wendy Davis

After the Texas cutoff of aid to women’s health care services including Planned Parenthood clinics, "over 150,000… women lost the only health care they had. Our Medicaid birth rate shot up. It cost taxpayers over $130 million in one year alone in extra Medicaid birth costs."

— Texas

Neil Cavuto

Taking all the money of the top 1 percent wouldn’t keep Medicare going for three years.

— PunditFact

Viral media reports

Drinking champagne could help prevent Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.

— Georgia

Bernie Sanders

The United States is "the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege."

— National

Carly Fiorina

"Obamacare isn't helping anyone."

— National

Ezekiel Emanuel

Obamacare insurance cooperative failures "should be expected" because they're like any business, and "when you start businesses in America, at the fifth year, half of the businesses have closed."  

— PunditFact

Donald Trump

On the VA: "Over 300,000 veterans have died waiting for care."

— Virginia

Centers for Disease Control

Georgia has the highest flu activity in the country.

— Georgia

Donald Trump

Because of Obamacare "people’s premiums ... are going up 35, 45, 55 percent."  

— National

Dan Patrick

Planned Parenthood is "nothing more than a referral service. … They don’t do anything except profit from killing babies and then selling body parts of those aborted babies."

— Texas

Elton John

HIV/AIDS is "dramatically on the rise in the U.S. South."

— Georgia