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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of May 7-13.
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Tag Archives: health care
Not So Swift
A new fundraising plea from the Democratic National Committee highlights the link between a new conservative group’s health care ads and the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth — but it goes too far in its claim of a connection. An e-mail message from David Plouffe, Obama’s campaign manager, says: Plouffe, DNC …
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Health Savings Still Optimistic
Back when he was courting voters, then-candidate Barack Obama boasted that his health care plan would save the typical family "up to $2,500" a year. And May 13, as President Obama, he repeated the claim, this time relying both on undefined "comprehensive reform" and a cost-control promise by the insurance …
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The Real Scott’s Shady?
We had plenty to say recently about a misleading health care ad from a group called Conservatives for Patients’ Rights. We criticized the ad on its merits — but another organization has taken a different tack. Health Care for America Now released this TV spot, titled "Shady," on May 7, attacking the …
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Government-Run Health Care?
A group called Conservatives for Patients’ Rights began airing a television ad this week that criticizes government-run health care and falsely suggests Congress wants a British-style system here in the U.S. The ad neglects to mention that President Obama hasn’t proposed a government-run plan and, in fact …
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Swine Flu Fact and Fiction
You can’t spell "pandemic" without "panic," and news about swine flu has put people in a tizzy. As with any tizzy, this has resulted in some misinformation getting mixed in with the real-time updates. We present a few misconceptions about swine flu that we’ve seen or heard in the last …
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How Serious Is Swine Flu?
Blogs, news organizations and Twitter are all exploding with rumor and fact about the swine flu outbreak. But at the National Academy of Sciences today, President Obama said there was no need to panic: Obama: We are closely monitoring the emerging cases of swine flu in the United States. And …
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Congress and Progress
Americans United For Change, a liberal labor-funded group, has released a new ad accusing congressional Republicans of opposing "progress." The ad accuses Republicans of voting against children’s health insurance, equal pay for women, economic recovery, middle-class tax cuts and a budget that would lead to "long-term prosperity." We’ve called this …
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Posted in The FactCheck Wire
Tagged Americans United for Change, health care, repub, stimulus bill
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Social Security for Immigrants and Refugees
Q: Do immigrants and refugees get more in benefits than a retired U.S. citizen gets in Social Security? A: This is nonsense. The claims propagated by a viral e-mail are not even close to the truth.
Posted in Ask FactCheck
Tagged health care, illegal immigrants, medicaid, refugees, Social Security
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