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Statements about Medicaid
Patricia Morgan

Patricia Morgan

Half-True

Even with broad definition of welfare, number is high

"Our welfare system now consumes 42 percent of our budget."

Steve Lonegan

Steve Lonegan

True

Doctors are saying no

"Sixty percent of New Jersey doctors do not accept Medicaid patients."

Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney

Mostly True

Feds didn't give up control

Rhode Island has taken its federal Medicaid funding and shown it can run the program more cost-effectively than the federal government.

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Mostly False

Fees raised once, not eight times

As governor, "Mitt Romney raised nursing home fees eight times."

Tennessee Democratic Party

Tennessee Democratic Party

False

Speculation at best

The "Health Care Compact bill would end Medicare's guaranteed benefit for Tennessee's Medicare recipients and shift management of the federal health care plan to the state's TennCare program."

James Clyburn

James Clyburn

False

Final bills got significant GOP support

When Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid were created, "Republicans stood on the sidelines"

Scott Walker

Scott Walker

False

Study's author begs to differ

A study showed that President Barack Obama’s health-care reforms will "devastate Wisconsin" by pushing people off employer-sponsored insurance, driving up premiums, increasing dependency and making 122,000 people ineligible for Medicaid.

Brian Robinson

Brian Robinson

False

Say 'Oops!'

Funding the federal health care law without a tax hike will "require the state to cut nearly a quarter of its annual budget."

Rick Scott

Rick Scott

False

Inflates, oversimplifies state estimate

The Medicaid expansion is "going to cost Florida $1.9 billion a year."  

Elizabeth Roberts

Elizabeth Roberts

Mostly False

Not this year. Not overall. In 2010? Maybe.

"Massachusetts is reporting a trend far below the national trend in the escalation of health-care costs in this year."

Amy Handlin

Amy Handlin

Mostly False

Federal match would be lower, not gone

Says under the Affordable Care Act, New Jersey’s "new (Medicaid) enrollees won’t qualify for the matching federal funds simply because we added them onto the rolls before 2014."

Elliott Naishtat

Elliott Naishtat

True

More than 200,000 babies in 2010

"More than half of the births in Texas are paid for by Medicaid."

Rick Santorum

Rick Santorum

False

At most it would be 60 percent

After President Barack Obama’s health care law takes full effect, "100 percent" of Americans will "depend on some form of federal payment, some form of government benefit to help provide for them."

Rick Santorum

Rick Santorum

Mostly True

It may even be higher now

"A little less than 50 percent of the people in this country depend on some form of federal payment, some form of government benefit to help provide for them."

Kurt Schrader

Kurt Schrader

True

When it comes to federal spending, Schrader’s meaning eclipses his choice of words.

In just a few decades, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, other mandatory spending programs, and paying interest due on the debt will eclipse our entire budget.

Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich

Mostly False

Nursing home residents kept kosher

"Gov. Romney cut off kosher meals for Jewish senior citizens who were on Medicaid to save $5 a day."

National Taxpayers Union

National Taxpayers Union

False

Disconnected dots

President Obama plans to "impose a tax of at least 23 percent on the Medicare prescription drug benefit for low-income beneficiaries."

Nick Tsiongas

Nick Tsiongas

True

$2 billion increase in 10 years

"Health care is the greatest contribution to spending increases in the state budget."

Margaret Carlson

Margaret Carlson

Half-True

Rec: Read his book

Rick Perry "has advocated abandoning Social Security, scuttling Medicaid and ending the federal income tax."

Gary Sasse

Gary Sasse

True

Reasons why are elusive

Rhode Island spends "52 percent more per capita on human service programs than the national average."

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