While debating 6 feet apart due to the coronavirus outbreak, the two leading contenders offered competing versions of the facts on several key issues.
FactChecking the March Democratic Debate
Issues: uninsured
FactChecking the October Democratic Debate
The spin focused mainly on the economy and health care.
Trump’s Numbers July 2019 Update
Statistical measures of how things have changed since the president took office.
Trump’s Numbers, April 2019 Update
Statistical measures of how things have changed since the president took office.
Did the Uninsured Increase by 7 Million?
Democrats have embraced a new talking point: “7 million Americans have become uninsured” under President Donald Trump. That’s backed up by a Gallup survey. So far, one other measure has picked up a statistical change in the uninsured rate, but others haven’t. We’ll go through the numbers.
Trump’s Numbers January 2019 Update
Statistical measures of how things have changed since the president took office.
Trump’s Numbers October 2018 Update
Statistical measures of how things have changed since the president took office.
Obama Cherry-Picks Uninsured Figure
Former President Barack Obama claimed that Republicans’ “sabotage of the Affordable Care Act has already cost more than 3 million Americans their health insurance.” That’s according to one estimate, but another found no significant change in the rate or the number of uninsured from 2016 to 2017.
Trump’s Numbers (First Quarterly Update)
Statistical measures of how things have changed since the president took office.
CBO’s Obamacare Predictions: How Accurate?
So, was the Congressional Budget Office really “way, way off … in every aspect” of how it predicted that Obamacare would work, as the White House claims? No, it wasn’t.