Fact-checking the lies from GOP Senators
Another debate over health insurance reform, another weekend of Republicans inventing reasons to just say "no." Locked into their defense of the status quo, most Senate Republicans spent the debate over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act spouting nonsensical, often already debunked, claims.
With so many distortions to correct from so many Republican Senators, we’ve gathered the facts (and the charges they refute) in one place. It’s a long read, no question — and that goes to show how obstructionist Republicans have become.
Read the fact checks (39 of them in all) on Senate Republicans below:
FACT CHECK McCain: Check The Bill, Senator
FACT CHECK MCCONNELL: Cost Of Legislation Distortions
FACT CHECK GRASSLEY: Grassley Confuses Up With Down
FACT CHECK KYL: Scare Tactics On Increasing Premiums
FACT CHECK HATCH: Health Care Will Not Be Rationed
FACT CHECK HATCH: Distorting the Debate
FACT CHECK CORNYN: State Budgets and Medicaid
FACT CHECK BURR: Small Businesses
FACT CHECK CORKER: Misleading on Medicare
FACT CHECK AEI: Cost of Reform
FACT CHECK: Palin Damages Credibility Again
FACT CHECK JOHANNS, HATCH, BROWNBACK: Abortion
Fact Check Thune: Small Business
Fact Check Bond: Debunked Health Insurance Industry Study
Fact Check Bond: Bond’s Arguments Against Health Care Amount To A Pig In A Poke
Fact Check Gregg: Gregg’s Hypocrisy On The Debt
Fact Check Enzi: Premiums, Medicare And Medicaid
Fact Check: Sen. Gregg Lies About Price Of Health Insurance Reform…Again
Fact Check Sen. Ensign: Rationing And GOP Plan
Fact Check Barrasso: Repeats Already Debunked Lie About Medicare
Fact Check: Sen. Jon Kyl Defends Status Quo Of Rising Premiums
Fact Check Kyl: Kyl Praises Republican Plan That Worsens Healthcare Crisis
Fact Check Lemieux: Siding With Insurance Companies
Fact Check Burr: Burr Repeats Multiple Debunked Lies On Insurance Reform
Fact Check Hutchison: "Government Takeover"
Fact Check Chambliss/Brownback: Revisionist History
Fact Check Gregg: Gregg Ignores CBO
Fact Check Enzi: Cost Of Reform
Gregg Complains About Debt He Helped Create
Hatch Hatches More Distortions on Health Care
Well Senator, That’s Just Not True
Hatch Tries Health Care Hatchet Job And Hatchets Own Reputation
