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Viral image stated on August 18, 2021 in in a photo in a reddit thread:

A photo shows two COVID-19 patients lying on the floor awaiting treatment in Florida.

By Amy Sherman• August 20, 2021

Michael Needham stated on June 25, 2017 in an interview on Fox News Sunday:

"Actually, on some procedures, you're more likely to die if you're on Medicaid than if you're uninsured."

By Amy Sherman• June 28, 2017

Donald Trump stated on September 24, 2020 in an executive order:

“For example, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, my Administration implemented a program to provide any individual without health-insurance coverage access to necessary COVID‑19‑related testing and treatment.”

By Julie Appleby• October 1, 2020

Chris Koster stated on August 09, 2016 in an Instagram post:

"A rural hospital in Missouri closes every 8 months. The legislature’s failure to expand Medicaid has brought crisis to many of Missouri’s rural health care providers."

By Anna Maples• October 3, 2016

Ohio Republican Party stated on October 15, 2012 in an election flier :

"President Obama has worked to change Medicare for the worse" by "creating an unelected, unaccountable panel with the power to deny coverage of certain treatments."

By Tom Feran• October 15, 2012

Maram Museitif stated on May 24, 2017 in as quoted in a Central Health press release:

Says Arabic "is the third most-common language in Austin."

By W. Gardner Selby• June 5, 2017

Ted Cruz stated on April 01, 2013 in remarks in Austin, Texas:

"Expanding Medicaid will worsen health care options for the most vulnerable among us in Texas."

By Louis Jacobson• April 8, 2013

Michele Bachmann stated on October 11, 2011 in a debate in New Hampshire:

"These 15 political appointees (on the IPAB) will make all the major health care decisions for over 300 million Americans."

By Angie Drobnic Holan• October 12, 2011

National Republican Congressional Committee stated on July 30, 2012 in a news release:

In 2010, Betty Sutton "voted to destroy Medicare."

By Stephen Koff• August 3, 2012

JD Vance stated on September 17, 2024 in comments made at a campaign rally:

“We're bankrupting a lot of hospitals by forcing these hospitals to provide care for people who don't have the legal right to be in our country.”

By Sam Whitehead• October 23, 2024

Donna Brazile stated on November 19, 2013 in a broadcast of CNN's Situation Room:

Republican ideas on health care don’t give people "an option to even enroll in something that they can afford."

By Jon Greenberg• November 26, 2013

Scott Garrett stated on July 29, 2012 in an op-ed on NorthJersey.com:

"The president’s health care law raids Medicare by more than $500 billion and creates a Medicare rationing board — a group of 15 unelected bureaucrats — to slow the growth of Medicare spending."

By Erin O'Neill• August 3, 2012

Kamala Harris stated on July 06, 2024 in a moderated conversation:

Black women in the U.S. are “three to four times more likely to die in connection with childbirth than other women."

By Samantha Putterman• July 11, 2024

Florida First Initiative stated on June 09, 2010 in a TV ad:

Of hospitals in Rick Scott’s Columbia/HCA health care company, "A top executive said they even turned away a poor man and left him to die outside their door."

By Cristina Silva• June 15, 2010

Pete Snyder stated on March 06, 2013 in a website post.:

"A study by the University of Virginia pulls back the curtain on Medicaid’s tragically bad outcomes, including ‘increased risk of adjusted mortality.’"

By Nancy Madsen• April 1, 2013

Richard Corcoran stated on April 16, 2015 in an email to constituents:

"Medicaid patients were 97 percent more likely to die than those with private insurance."

By Joshua Gillin• April 22, 2015

Rick Scott stated on May 06, 2015 in an interview in Washington, D.C.:

"The families that are covered through the Low Income Pool is a different group of individuals than are covered by Obamacare."

By Joshua Gillin• May 11, 2015

Sarah Palin stated on October 02, 2008 in St. Louis:

Barack Obama's health care plan is "to mandate health care coverage and have a universal government-run program."

By Angie Drobnic Holan• October 2, 2008

Mark Walker stated on January 22, 2021 in a tweet:

“President Biden is raising the prices of insulin and Epi-Pens on those with high costs and the uninsured.”

By Samantha Putterman, Paul Specht• February 12, 2021

Becky Moeller stated on June 28, 2012 in a statement reacting to the Supreme Court decision upholding the law.:

Says the federal health care law upheld by the Supreme Court "has improved or saved the lives of more than 4,000 Texans" otherwise prevented from obtaining health coverage due to pre-existing conditions.

By W. Gardner Selby• June 29, 2012

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