Tag Archives: death panels

No Dialysis Under Health Care Law?

Posted on June 20, 2012

A viral email wrongly claims the federal health care law caused a Tennessee hospital to deny dialysis to Medicare patients, and that anyone over 75 would be denied care starting in 2013. The anonymous author fabricated the account. Read our April 20 Ask FactCheck, ” ‘Death Panels’ Redux,” for more …
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Neurological ‘Death Panels’?

Posted on January 5, 2012

Q: Does Obama plan to deny emergency brain surgery for patients over 70? A: No. A man claiming on a radio talk show to be a brain surgeon lied about that, and about a meeting of two associations of neurological surgeons, those associations say.

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Tales From New Hampshire

Posted on October 12, 2011 , Updated on October 20, 2011

Our research has turned up some more dubious and misleading claims from the economic debate among Republican candidates in Hanover, N.H. Cain claims his 9-9-9 proposal to overhaul the tax code is “simple, transparent, efficient, fair, and neutral.” But his campaign …
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