Latest from Politifact.com: Statements from Barack Obama
- Barack Obama: "History tells us that job growth always lags behind economic growth."
- Barack Obama: "The Senate Finance Committee approved a reform proposal that has both Democratic and Republican support."
- Barack Obama: "Medicare does just as good, if not better, at keeping people healthy" as Medicare Advantage.
- Barack Obama: "FDR was called a socialist and a communist."
- Barack Obama: On whether he would put a missile shield in Poland.
- Barack Obama: Families are paying $900, on average, "in higher premiums because of uncompensated care."
- Barack Obama: "Mathematically, the White Sox can still get in the playoffs."
- Barack Obama: Insurers delayed an Illinois man's treatment, "and he died because of it."
- Barack Obama: "It’s a plan that incorporates ideas from many of the people in this room tonight – Democrats and Republicans."
- Barack Obama: "The claim ... that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens ... is a lie, plain and simple."
- Barack Obama: Preventive care "saves money."
- Barack Obama: If you "already have health insurance through your job, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or the VA, nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have."
- Barack Obama: "If we went back to the obesity rates that existed back in the 1980s, the Medicare system over several years could save as much as a trillion dollars."
- Barack Obama: "Nearly 46 million Americans don't have health insurance coverage today."
- Barack Obama: "I just want to assure [you] we're not talking about cutting Medicare benefits."
- Barack Obama: AARP is "endorsing" the health care reform bill.
- Barack Obama: "I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter."
- Barack Obama: "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."
- Barack Obama: The health care plan for Members of Congress "is no better than the janitor who cleans their offices."
- Barack Obama: Stimulus tax cuts "began showing up in paychecks of 4.8 million Indiana households about three months ago."
- Barack Obama: "Doctors, nurses, hospitals, even the pharmaceutical industry, (and) AARP" say that health reform "makes sense to do."
- Barack Obama: "14,000 Americans . . . lose their health insurance every single day."
- Barack Obama: Health insurance companies are "making record profits, right now."
- Barack Obama: The stimulus "has delivered $43 billion in tax relief to American working families and businesses"
- Barack Obama: On mandating health care coverage.
Barack Obama: "History tells us that job growth always lags behind economic growth."
Tuesday, November 10, 2009The Truth-o-Meter says: True | Obama says job growth always lags behind economic growth
Original article from http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/nov/09/barack-obama/obama-says-job-growth-always-lags-behind-economic-/
Some Republican critics have scoffed at President Barack Obama's pronouncements that the economy seems to be improving, pointing to the unemployment rate, which keeps going up. But Obama has consistently tempered his hopeful words about positive economic indicators with warnings that unemployment rates are ...
Original article from http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/nov/09/barack-obama/obama-says-job-growth-always-lags-behind-economic-/
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