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John Bucy III
stated on March 27, 2019 in the Texas House:

"Right now, 1 in 4 Texas women of reproductive age are uninsured, totaling 1.5 million Texas women."

By Madlin Mekelburg • March 29, 2019
Richard Ojeda
stated on October 24, 2018 in a video posted to Facebook:

"We have lost more lives in the last two years" due to opioids "than all of the lives lost during the Vietnam War."

By Douglas Soule • November 15, 2018
Jon Tester
stated on October 10, 2018 in in an ad:

"Matt Rosendale supports plans that don’t have to cover (pre-existing conditions)."

By John Kruzel • October 31, 2018
Joe Manchin
stated on August 23, 2018 in a news release:

"Black lung cases are at a 25-year high."

By Douglas Soule • October 23, 2018
VoteVets.org
stated on October 12, 2018 in an ad:

Says Rick Scott’s "hospital company stole millions, defrauding the military’s health care program."

By Amy Sherman • October 23, 2018
Claire McCaskill
stated on August 23, 2018 in an op-ed for the Springfield News-Leader:

Says a Josh Hawley lawsuit "would take away important prescription drug coverage for seniors through Medicare and end all of the consumer protections under the ACA."

By Hannah Archambault • September 13, 2018
Evan Jenkins
stated on March 20, 2018 in a press release:

West Virginia "has the highest overdose death rate in the nation."

By Louis Jacobson • March 23, 2018
Nancy Pelosi
stated on January 18, 2018 in a press conference:

Reauthorizing the Children’s Health Insurance Program "for six years saves $1 billion" and doing it for 10 years saves $6 billion.

By Louis Jacobson • January 24, 2018
Bruce Rauner
stated on September 28, 2017 in a press conference:

"I personally am pro-choice. I always have been. And I made no qualms about that when I was elected governor."

By Matt Dietrich • October 10, 2017
Eric Schneiderman
stated on July 17, 2017 in a speech at Mount Sinai, Icahn School of Medicine:

"We have been able to cut New York’s uninsured rate in half since 2013 from 10 percent to 5 percent of our population."

By Dan Clark • July 24, 2017
John Faso
stated on July 15, 2017 in an article in the Times Herald-Record:

"We now have about one-third of New York’s population on Medicaid."

By Dan Clark • July 21, 2017
Stacey Evans
stated on June 12, 2017 in a campaign video:

"I helped win one of the biggest private lawsuits against Medicare fraud in history. The government declined to pursue the case, so my firm did, and we recovered $324 million for taxpayers."

By Manuela Tobias • July 14, 2017
Glenn Grothman
stated on April 30, 2017 in a town hall meeting:

"Planned Parenthood is the biggest abortion provider in the country."

By Dave Umhoefer • May 15, 2017
Chris Collins
stated on March 16, 2017 in a CNN town hall:

In New York state, "you cannot charge an older person even one dollar more than a younger person" for health insurance.

By Dan Clark • March 31, 2017
Carolyn Maloney
stated on March 16, 2017 in remarks on the House floor:

"More than half of Planned Parenthood facilities are in rural or medically underserved areas."

By Sarah Waychoff • March 24, 2017
Ron Johnson
stated on March 21, 2017 in an interview:

The GOP’s Obamacare replacement would reduce subsidies that help lower-income people buy health insurance, but also "expand the entitlement" by giving subsidies to higher-income people "that Obamacare never helped."

By Tom Kertscher • March 23, 2017
Donald Trump
stated on March 13, 2017 in a listening session on health care:

"One-third of the counties — think of it, one-third — only have one insurer left" on the Affordable Care Act exchanges.

By Lauren Carroll • March 13, 2017
Donna Howard
stated on February 27, 2017 in a Facebook Live interview with Austin bureau reporters for the Dallas Morning News:

Says condoms "used to be tax-exempt here in Texas."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 10, 2017
Jerry Brown
stated on January 13, 2017 in a letter:

The uninsured rate in California reached "a historic low of 7.4 percent in 2016."

By Chris Nichols • January 19, 2017
Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 5, 2017 in a tweet:

The federal government is prohibited "from negotiating lower prescription drug prices for our senior citizens."

By Tom Kertscher • January 17, 2017
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
stated on October 28, 2016 in an ad:

Says Russ Feingold said that with Obamacare, "we could keep our doctors and our plans, it was rated as the Lie of the Year."

By Tom Kertscher • November 4, 2016
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 9, 2016 in the second 2016 presidential debate:

"Right now we are at 90 percent health insurance covered. That's the highest we've ever been in our country."

By Louis Jacobson • October 9, 2016
Bill Mitchell
stated on April 20, 2016 in a speech:

"Over the last six years, the state of Illinois spent about $320 million on illegal immigrants."

By Joseph Cariz • July 14, 2016
Donald Trump
stated on July 11, 2016 in a speech:

"A shocking 20 veterans are committing suicide each and every day, especially our older veterans."

By Sean Gorman • July 14, 2016
Jack Falanagan
stated on March 10, 2016 in a speech :

Says New Hampshire’s second congressional district includes two counties where "almost 5 percent if not more" of residents are enrolled in the state’s expanded Medicaid program.

By Clay Wirestone • April 15, 2016
Joe Pitts
stated on March 10, 2016 in a Medium post:

"According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 120 Americans on average die from a drug overdose every day. Overall, drug overdose deaths now outnumber deaths from firearms."

By Louis Jacobson • March 21, 2016
John Cortes
stated on January 13, 2016 in a House Health Innovation Subcommittee meeting:

"Anyone can die of a toothache."

By Joshua Gillin • January 26, 2016
Barack Obama
stated on January 12, 2016 in his State of the Union speech:

"Our businesses have created jobs every single month since (Obamacare) became law."

By Lauren Carroll • January 12, 2016
Scott Walker
stated on December 3, 2015 in an interview:

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

By Tom Kertscher • December 23, 2015
Bernie Sanders
stated on December 19, 2015 in the Dec. 19 Democratic presidential debate:

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."

By Jon Greenberg • December 20, 2015