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August 13, 2009

For 2009, there are a reported 1,544 pharmaceutical and health products company lobbyists.
Source: Center for Responsive Politics

August 12, 2009

The Federal Employee Health Benefits program, which contracts with 111 health plans and offers 269 health plan options, covers approximately 8 million federal employees, retirees and their dependents.
Source: Office of Personnel Management

FactCheck Mailbag, Week of Aug. 4-Aug. 10

This week, readers sent us comments on Canadian Shona Holmes, employer health care and Nazi symbols.
In the FactCheck Mailbag we feature some of the e-mail we receive. Readers can send comments to editor@factcheck.org. Letters may be edited for length.

August 11, 2009

Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly and the disabled, covers 46 million Americans. Medicare spending totaled $455 billion in 2008.

Source: Kaiser Family Foundation

August 9, 2009

There were 2.6 million children who lived with both a grandmother and a grandfather in the U.S. in 2008.

Source: Census Bureau

August 8, 2009

There were 6.6 million children living with a grandparent in the U.S. in 2008. That’s 9 percent of all children in the country.

Source: Census Bureau

August 7, 2009

In 2007, 2.5 million grandparents were responsible for most of the basic needs of one or more of the grandchildren living with them.

Source: Census Bureau

August 6, 2009

The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game took place during the World Fair in Chicago on July 6, 1933.
Source: MLB.com

August 5, 2009

Maine Gov. John Baldacci has declared August Maine Lobster Month.
Source: Maine Lobster Council

FactCheck Mailbag, Week of July 28-August 3

This week, readers sent us comments on Facebook trolls, bias and the uninsured. In the FactCheck Mailbag we feature some of the e-mail we receive.
Readers can send comments to editor@factcheck.org. Letters may be edited for length.