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Tag Archives: health care law
Chamber Continues to Mislead on Health Care Law
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s latest onslaught of television ads continues to miseducate voters about the potential impact of the health care law. Ads attacking Sen. Bill Nelson and former Rep. Alan Grayson claim that the health care law “could” cause 20 million people to lose employer-paid health care coverage. …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Alan Grayson, bill Nelson, chamber of commerce, health care law, lois frankel
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How Many Would Repeal ‘Obamacare’?
Mitt Romney says “most Americans want to get rid of” President Obama’s two-year-old health care law. Is he right? That depends on which poll-taker is asking the question, and how it’s worded. Romney made the assertion at a rally in Louisiana on March 23, marking the second anniversary of the …
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Health Care Costs Didn’t Double
Several readers asked us about Republican comments and news reports saying that a new Congressional Budget Office report had found that the federal health care law would cost double the original estimate. But that’s not what CBO’s report said. Instead, the report shows that the gross yearly costs of the …
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Tagged congressional budget office, health care law, Tom Price
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GOP’s ‘Job-Killing’ Whopper, Again
The exaggerated Republican claim that the new health care law “kills jobs” was high on our list of the “Whoppers of 2011.” But the facts haven’t stopped Republicans and their allies from making the “job-killing” claim a major theme of their campaign 2012 TV ads: Five ads by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce …
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Tagged chamber of commerce, Freedom Path, health care law, health care reform, Jo Bonner, job-killing, jobs
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Pat Boone Misleads Seniors
The same old claims about the federal health care law turn up once again in an ad featuring pop and gospel singer Pat Boone, the national spokesman for the conservative 60 Plus Association. The group says it’s spending $750,000 to air the minute-long ad in Ohio, and the spot had …
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Fanciful ‘Facts’ At Fox News Debate
Nine Republican presidential candidates debated for two hours in Orlando, Fla., and they served up more exaggerations and falsehoods — about Obama, each other, and even Thomas Jefferson. Perry claimed Romney supports Obama’s Race to the Top education initiative. In fact …
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Tagged education, Gary Johnson, health care law, Herman Cain, Israel, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Ron Paul
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60 Plus Wrong on Rationing
The chairman of the conservative 60 Plus Association made the bogus claim that the Food and Drug Administration has "declassified" a breast cancer drug "because of cost and cost alone," an example, he said, of the "rationing" of Medicare because of the federal health care law. Jim Martin, the head …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged 60 plus, Avastin, breast cancer, FDA, health care law
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