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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

John Delaney stated on June 26, 2019 in comments made during the first Democratic presidential primary debate:

"If you go to every hospital in this country and you ask them one question, which is, ‘How would it have been for you last year if every one of your bills were paid at the Medicare rate?’ Every single hospital administrator said they would close."

By Shefali Luthra• June 27, 2019

Marsha Blackburn stated on August 08, 2018 in a speech to farmers:

"Hospitals are closing in rural America because they don't have access to high-speed internet."

By Jon Greenberg• August 15, 2018

Facebook posts stated on March 28, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Pictures and reports of “empty hospitals” prove COVID-19 spread is “fake crisis for real government planned agendas.”

By Tom Kertscher• April 3, 2020

Facebook posts stated on January 01, 2021 in a Facebook post:

There are “absolutely no patients” at Los Angeles hospital considered the center of region's COVID-19 surge.

By Chris Nichols• January 6, 2021

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

Facebook posts stated on April 27, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Hospitals get paid $750 for patients who die from the flu, $17,500 for COVID-19.

By Tom Kertscher• May 18, 2020

Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital stated on February 29, 2016 in a page on the hospital's website:

The Chris Hani Baragwanath in South Africa is "the world’s third-biggest hospital."

By Jon Greenberg• February 29, 2016

Facebook posts stated on March 07, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“U.S. hospitals are preparing for 96 million coronavirus infections and nearly half a million deaths, leaked documents reveal.”

By Tom Kertscher• March 13, 2020

Jeff Jackson stated on March 19, 2020 in a tweet:

Says North Carolina "hospital beds are typically 85% full across the state.”

By Paul Specht• April 1, 2020

George Barker stated on July 26, 2014 in statement:

Uncompensated care has "gone down by 30 percent just in the first few months" of Medicaid expansion in the states that adopted it.

By Nancy Madsen• August 10, 2014

Democratic Party of Virginia stated on September 16, 2014 in a news release.:

"Hospitals have already begun layoffs, a direct result of Republican inaction" on Medicaid expansion.

By Nancy Madsen• October 6, 2014

Rick Scott stated on May 30, 2010 in a TV ad:

"Two-thirds of the top-rated hospitals in Florida were our hospitals."

By Aaron Sharockman• June 4, 2010

Kathryn Moffett Bradford stated on September 01, 2021 in comments at a WVU faculty meeting:

“If you look at the hospitalizations at Ruby Memorial in West Virginia, and around the country, 90% to 95% of those hospitalized are unvaccinated.”

By Emma Copley, Abigail Mulhern• October 5, 2021

X posts stated on August 11, 2022 in a tweet:

"Boston Children’s Hospital is now offering 'gender-affirming hysterectomies' for young girls."

By Yacob Reyes• August 12, 2022

William G. Batchelder stated on September 18, 2012 in an interview with The Plain Dealer:

"We have more hospitals that are children’s hospitals than any other state in the union."

By Reginald Fields• November 5, 2012

Warren Daniel stated on April 23, 2020 in a tweet:

North Carolina’s health department is "telling hospitals that if they decide to do elective surgeries, they won’t be eligible to receive (protective equipment) from the state.”

By Paul Specht• May 8, 2020

The Gateway Pundit stated on July 28, 2022 in a post:

“Three doctors from the same hospital ‘die suddenly’ in the same week,” after the hospital mandated a fourth COVID-19 vaccine for employees.

By Monique Curet• July 29, 2022

Coalition To Save Memorial Hospital Birthing Center stated on March 13, 2016 in statement:

"This unit is the only one in the state that strives to implement the principles of Mother-Friendly care as outlined by the national Coalition for Improving Maternity Services Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative."

By Jacqueline Tempera• March 27, 2016

Sean Hannity stated on March 16, 2020 in a TV segment:

“Now, as it stands, our health care system has adequate ventilators, ICU beds, medical professionals.”

By Bill McCarthy• March 18, 2020

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