March 20, 2010 3:53 pm ET filed under Fact Check
FactCheck.org On American Future Fund Ad: "That's Absurd."
FactCheck.org's analysis of American Future Fund's newest ad, "Backroom": it's "absurd."
March 20, 2010 3:10 pm ET filed under Video
Rep. Gingrey: Seniors Would Lose Care To Save Money For "Injured Professional Athletes"
March 20, 2010 3:06 pm ET filed under Video
Rep. Broun: You'd Have To Be "Walkin' Around In A Dead Person" To Believe CBO
Huh?
March 20, 2010 11:23 am ET filed under Fact Check
In Weekly Address, Rep. Boehner Reprises Tired GOP Falsehoods
In the Weekly Republican Address on March 20, 2010, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) repeated worn out Republican talking points in a last ditch effort to smear health care reform. Contrary to Boehner's claims, health care reform will stop insurance company abuses, cut the deficit, create jobs, and provide millions of Americans with affordable health care coverage. The GOP plan, however, does nothing to cover the uninsured or stop insurers from taking advantage of American patients.
March 20, 2010 10:59 am ET filed under Blog
Rep. Broun: You'd Have To Be "Walkin' Around In A Dead Person" To Believe CBO
March 19, 2010 5:50 pm ET filed under Blog
Kaiser Poll Shows Increasing Support For Reform
March 19, 2010 5:23 pm ET filed under Blog
Rep. Chaffetz Lies About His Colleague, Has Nothing To Say When Called Out
March 19, 2010 2:04 pm ET filed under Blog
Rep. Broun: Undocumented Immigrants Have "Anchor Babies" For Health Insurance
March 19, 2010 12:13 pm ET filed under Fact Check
Chamber Of Commerce's "Too Much" Ad Has Too Many Lies About Health Care Reform
The health insurance industry-funded Chamber of Commerce has released a new factually inaccurate ad about health care reform. As the vote to provide millions of Americans with health care coverage they can afford draws nearer, these desperate lies are not at all surprising.
March 19, 2010 12:06 pm ET filed under Blog
Rep. Steve King Declares Sunday Vote "Sanctimonious"
Rep. Steve King's argument against health care reform took a new direction on Thursday when he and Glenn Beck spoke about how troubling they find the possibility of a Sunday vote.
March 19, 2010 10:10 am ET filed under Fact Check
GOP Lies To Watch For
As the debate over health care reform enters its final stretch, Media Matters Action Network compiled a brief memo highlighting and correcting the six most common Republican lies.
March 18, 2010 2:54 pm ET filed under Fact Check
Sen. Hatch Misleads On Abortion Coverage In Senate Bill
In a misleading op-ed published on Foxnews.com, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) claims that the Senate version of health care reform legislation allows for taxpayer funding of elective abortions. The claim has been thoroughly refuted and debunked. In fact, the bill explicitly bans federal money from funding abortion except in cases of rape, incest, or when the health of the mother is endangered.
March 18, 2010 11:41 am ET filed under Blog
Sen. Coburn Says Democrats "Concocted" A Procedure To Pass The Cornhusker Kickback
March 18, 2010 9:44 am ET filed under Blog
CBO: Health Care Bill Reduces Deficit By More Than $1.3 TRILLION Over 20 Years
March 17, 2010 11:47 am ET filed under Fact Check
The Truth About Self-Executing Rules
As the health care debate enters its final week, Republicans are amplifying their feigned outrage and hypocritical attacks. After it was reported that House Democrats may pass a "self-executing rule" to combine the Senate bill and their budget "fix" into one floor vote, Republicans falsely asserted the majority was abusing their power by trying to pass health care without voting on it. In reality, the self-executing rule would still require an up-or-down vote and has been used by Republicans dozens of times.
March 17, 2010 9:59 am ET filed under Fact Check
Sen. Hatch Falsely Claims Health Care Reform Will "Double And Triple Our National Debt"
During an interview on Fox News, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) declared that passing health care reform "is going to double and triple our national debt." In reality, while the national debt currently stands at $12.6 trillion, health care reform will lower deficits by more than $100 billion by 2019.
March 16, 2010 4:49 pm ET filed under Fact Check
Rep. Kingston Skews Health Care Comments By Speaker Pelosi
During a floor speech on March 16, 2010, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) displayed a poster highlighting an out-of-context partial quote from Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying "we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." Despite rightwing efforts to skew her remarks, the entirety of Pelosi's remarks shows she was simply condemning the large amount of conservative misinformation surrounding the health care debate.
March 16, 2010 3:01 pm ET filed under Video
Rep. Gohmert Discusses "Passing" The Health Care Bill... After Eating It
March 16, 2010 2:01 pm ET filed under Fact Check
Rep. Pence Wrongly Asserts Health Care Reform Funds Abortions
During a floor speech on March 16, 2010, Rep. Mike Pence falsely claimed the health care reform bill contained "public funding of abortion." In reality, the bill explicitly bans federal money from funding abortion except in cases of rape, incest, or when the health of the mother is endangered.
March 15, 2010 4:04 pm ET filed under Fact Check
During Health Care Markup, Rep. Ryan Lies About Medical Treatment Research
During the House Budget Committee's markup of the health care reform "fix" on March 15, 2010, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) falsely claimed comparative effectiveness research (CER) would "restrict" doctors' decisions about which treatment they could offer their patients. In reality, the CER board would simply conduct research to evaluate the effectiveness of various medical treatments, NOT recommend or "restrict" treatments.
March 15, 2010 1:38 pm ET filed under Fact Check
Rep. Ryan Fills Health Care Op-Ed With Distortions
On March 15, 2010, Rep. Paul Ryan published a wildly misleading op-ed in the Washington Post. In it, he uses false attacks to smear the Democratic plan to reform health care and lies about the would-be effects of two of his own proposals, the Patients' Choice Act and Roadmap for America's Future.
March 15, 2010 10:28 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - March 14, 2010
On yesterday's political talk shows, Republican members of Congress repeated worn out obstructionist talking points about health care reform. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) spread lies about the use of reconciliation and falsely equated it to the Republicans' attempt to change Senate rules in 2005. Flying in the face of the facts, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) falsely claimed the plan would cut Medicare benefits, raise premiums, and increase the deficit.
March 15, 2010 9:33 am ET filed under Fact Check
Americans For Prosperity Keeps Its "Hands Off" The Truth In New Anti-Health Care Ad
The sheer number of lies in Americans for Prosperity's new anti-health care reform ad is astounding. Apparently unaware that it is March 2010, AFP has reverted to repeatedly debunked and obviously false talking points from fall of 2009.
March 12, 2010 7:14 pm ET filed under Video
Sens. McCain and Alexander Keep Lying About Reconciliation
March 12, 2010 7:11 pm ET filed under Video
Rep. Blunt Misrepresents GOP Health Care Plan
March 12, 2010 6:16 pm ET filed under Fact Check
American Future Fund's Attack On Sen. Reid Is Breathtakingly Deceitful
The conservative American Future Fund has created a new attack ad seeking to portray Democrats as hypocrites on the process of reconciliation. Their ad highlights various statements made in 2005 in which Senate Democrats opposed a Republican plan to change the rules for confirming judicial nominees. Because they have no facts to attack Democrats on the merits of the argument, they've egregiously resorted to taking quotes out of context. Budget reconciliation and the Republican-led "nuclear option" plan to change the rules of the Senate are entirely separate things.
March 12, 2010 2:45 pm ET filed under Blog
Would Rep. Boehner Really Repeal Reform?
March 11, 2010 4:01 pm ET filed under Blog
Insurance Companies Blanket Airwaves With Misleading Ads
Media Matters Action Network, SEIU, and Progressive Media worked together to further expose how the insurance industry has teamed up with the Chamber of Commerce to try and block health care reform.
March 11, 2010 2:21 pm ET filed under Blog
Why Deficit Hawks Should Support Health Care Reform
