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  No ‘Special Subsidy’ for Congress

  • August 30, 2013
  Rep. Robert Pittenger is misleading his constituents by saying that he will decline the health insurance offered to members of Congress next year because it includes a “special subsidy” from the president that “exempted” Congress from the Affordable Care Act.
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  Obama’s Numbers, October Update

  • October 8, 2013
  Jobs, debt and poverty all are up. Our latest report on statistical measures of his presidency.
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  FactChecking ‘Pernicious’ Obamacare Claims

  • September 25, 2013
  There’s plenty of fodder for fact-checkers in Sen. Ted Cruz’s looong attack on Obamacare, and in President Obama’s defense of it.
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  Obamacare Myths

  • September 16, 2013
  We’ve been batting down bogus claims about the Affordable Care Act for years, since 2009, when legislation was still in the debate stage. But they’ve been increasing in intensity in recent months as we approach Oct. 1, the date the insurance exchanges will be open for business.
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  Obama’s Blurry Red Line

  • September 6, 2013
  A year ago, President Obama declared that the use of chemical weapons by Syrian President Bashar Assad would cross a “red line for us” and might trigger a U.S. military response.
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  No ‘Special Subsidy’ for Congress

  • August 30, 2013
  Rep. Robert Pittenger is misleading his constituents by saying that he will decline the health insurance offered to members of Congress next year because it includes a “special subsidy” from the president that “exempted” Congress from the Affordable Care Act.
  Click here to read more
  
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  Obama’s Numbers, October Update

  • October 8, 2013
  Jobs, debt and poverty all are up. Our latest report on statistical measures of his presidency.
  Click here to read more
  

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Cruz Distorts ACA Impact on Seniors, Children

• October 21, 2013

Sen. Ted Cruz says his “fight against Obamacare must continue,” and so must our fact-checking of claims about the law.
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ACA Doesn’t Restrict Mammograms

• October 18, 2013

Q: Does the Affordable Care Act restrict my ability to get a mammogram?
A: No. In fact, the law requires insurers to cover mammography, with no cost-sharing, every one to two years for women starting at age 40. Medicare fully pays for mammograms once every 12 months with no upper age limit.

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Distorting de Blasio’s Words in NYC

• October 18, 2013

A TV ad from Republican New York City mayoral candidate Joe Lhota distorts Bill de Blasio’s words amid violent imagery intending to portray the Democrat as soft on crime.
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Defining Default

• October 10, 2013

President Obama says failing to raise the debt limit will “force the United States to default on its obligations.” Sen. Rand Paul contends “there’s no reason for us to default.” Who’s right?
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Boehner and the Medical Device Tax

• October 9, 2013

House Speaker John Boehner exaggerated when he said the 2.3 percent medical device excise tax in the Affordable Care Act “is costing us tens of thousands of jobs that are being shipped overseas.”
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Obama’s Numbers, October Update

• October 8, 2013

Jobs, debt and poverty all are up. Our latest report on statistical measures of his presidency.
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GOP Attack on Health Care Navigators

• October 4, 2013

Republicans wrongly claimed in a blog post that the Obama administration went back on its word not to send federal health care “navigators” door to door to enroll Americans in [...]
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Sex Questions from Your Doctor?

• October 1, 2013

Q: Will doctors be required to ask patients questions about their sexual history under the Affordable Care Act?
A: No. A program created by the stimulus law – not Obamacare — encourages health professionals to use electronic records. But there is no requirement in the program to ask anything about sexual history.

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Spinning Premium Rates

• September 27, 2013

Both sides in the great Obamacare debate are distorting the facts about premium rates on the soon-to-open health exchanges to make their case for or against the law.
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Cruz-a-thon, Part II

• September 27, 2013

We are still reviewing the 21-hour, overnight talk-a-thon by Sen. Ted Cruz, and we found some more claims about Obamacare that are false.
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