Statements we say are Mostly False

Pharmaceutical Research and Manfacturers of America

"Speaker Pelosi's drug pricing plan would siphon $1 trillion or more from biopharmaceutical innovators over the next 10 years. CBO's preliminary estimate found this bill ‘would result in lower spending on research and development and thus reduce the introduction of new drugs.’" 

— PolitiFact Health Check on Thursday, December 5th, 2019

Joe Biden

"The fact is that right now the vast majority of Democrats do not support Medicare for All."

— PolitiFact Health Check on Tuesday, November 26th, 2019

Joe Biden

"For people making between $50,000 and $75,000 a year, their taxes are going up about $5,000 because the fact is, they will pay more in new taxes" for Medicare for All. 

— PolitiFact Health Check on Wednesday, October 16th, 2019

Christy Harrison

"We have a host of issues associated with high B.M.I.s. But correlation doesn’t prove causation, and there’s a significant body of research showing that weight stigma and weight cycling can explain most if not all of the associations we see between higher weights and poor health outcomes."

— PolitiFact Health Check on Tuesday, September 17th, 2019

Bernie Sanders

"Was it 150 million people on private insurance? 50 million of those people lose their private insurance every year when they quit their jobs, or they go unemployed, or their employer changes their insurance policy."

— PolitiFact Health Check on Friday, September 13th, 2019

Americans For Tax Reform

"The Department of Health and Human Services is considering a plan to adopt socialist price controls from foreign countries." 

— PolitiFact Health Check on Friday, July 19th, 2019

Bill de Blasio

"It matters that we nominate a candidate who saw the destruction wrought by a broken health care system and gave people universal health care. … These things really matter. And these are the things that I've done in New York."

— PolitiFact Health Check on Thursday, June 27th, 2019

Mick Mulvaney

"Drug prices in this country actually came down last year for the first time in 50 years. That’s because Donald Trump’s president." 

— PolitiFact Health Check on Monday, April 15th, 2019