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PolitiFact Truth-O-Meter: Health care fact vs. fiction
Editor's Note: PolitiFact.com is a project of the St. Petersburg Times that aims to help you find the truth in politics. Every day, reporters and researchers from the Times examine statements by members of Congress, the president, etc. They research their statements and then rate the accuracy on their Truth-O-Meter.
Obama says preventive care saves money. It doesn't.
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President Barack Obama defended his health care plan in a speech to a joint session of Congress, promoting the benefits of reform for those who already have coverage.
One of those benefits, he said, is that insurers will be required to cover checkups and other preventive care.
"Insurance companies will be required to cover, with no extra charge, routine checkups and preventive care, like mammograms and colonoscopies — because there’s no reason we shouldn't be catching diseases like breast cancer and colon cancer before they get worse," Obama said. "That makes sense, it saves money, and it saves lives."
It may make sense and save lives, but does it save money? Experts say no.
The Truth-O-Meter says: FALSE
Read more: Covering preventive care for everyone is a net cost
Boehner says abortion access was always a key goal for Obama health plan
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As a candidate, President Obama "declared that everyone deserves access to reproductive health care that includes abortion, and vowed that this 'right' would be at the heart of his health care reform plan if elected president."
-John Boehner on Thursday, September 10th, 2009 in a statement from the Minority Leader's office
The Truth-O-Meter says: TRUE
Read more: Obama's wording was coy, but Boehner's basically right
Boustany and other Republicans say health care plan would create 53 new government bureaucracies
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The Democratic health care bill in the House would "create 53 new government bureaucracies."
-Charles Boustany on Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 in response to President Obama's health care address to Congress
The Truth-O-Meter says: BARELY TRUE
What's on Tap – Monday September 14, 2009
Here are the big stories we'll be breaking down for you this morning:
Brand new developments surrounding the case of missing Yale graduate student Annie Le – It is now a homicide investigation. Police say a body believed to be that of Le was found stuffed inside a wall at the research lab where she went missing last week. (Full story)
An audio message believed to be from Osama bin Laden has surfaced on radical Islamic Web sites. For 11 minutes, the terror mastermind lashes out at President Obama – calling him "powerless". There are also references to former President Bush and former Vice President Cheney. Our Senior Middle East Affairs Editor Octavia Nasr will give us some insight on this development. (Full story)
And it was one year ago, Lehman Brothers collapsed – sending the world's economy into a financial free-fall. Today, President Obama marks the occasion with a trip to New York. He'll deliver a major speech on the financial meltdown in the heart of Wall Street. The best political team on television is standing by with more on today's speech. (Full story)
We Listen – Your comments 9/11/09
Editor's Note: On the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Friday’s American Morning audience appeared cynical and skeptical about the country’s ability to unite as it did on that tragic day. Most faulted the “divisive” media, greed, and racism as barriers to unification.
- Anthony: The division we have is severe, you will see this country break up, like the USSR, no one thought the Soviet Union would implode. We’re next.
- John: It is shameful and embarrassing that American's can not come together to resolve the nation’s issue. Churches need to step up to the plate take more of a leadership role in our communities, instead of preaching hate and pushing political agendas of their own, that divide people.
- Stacee: America will never come together because of the greed and the racism of the wealthy people as you can see Congress don't ever have respect for the President of the USA and the white people in this country want the rich to stay rich and the poor stay poor just remember Katrina in New Orleans that is what this country is built on and it will never change sad to say but it is true.
Do you believe the country can unite as it did on 9/11/01? What do you believe are the barriers to this unification? How can we again bring that cohesiveness to our nation and keep?
Vigilance or luck? No attacks on U.S. soil since 9/11
Eight years ago today the United States was attacked in what was the worst terrorist attack in the nation's history. Since that day America's leaders have been warning the country that an attack on U.S. soil is imminent.
In January 2002, during President Bush's first State of the Union address, he said "Thousands of dangerous killers, schooled in the methods of murder, often supported by outlaw regimes, are now spread throughout the world like ticking time bombs, set to go off without warning."
Vice President Cheney followed the president's warning a few months later in May saying, "I think that the prospects of a future attack on the U.S. are almost a certainty. It could happen tomorrow, it could happen next week, it could happen next year, but they will keep trying."
America watched nervously, anticipating the worst but no attack came. Since that sunny September morning 8 years ago the United States has been able to stay safe – but how?
ACORN workers allegedly gave prostitution tips
(CNN) - Two employees at the Baltimore, Maryland, branch of the liberal community organizing group ACORN were caught on tape allegedly offering advice to a pair posing as a pimp and prostitute on setting up a prostitution ring and evading the IRS.
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The video footage - which has been edited and goes to black in some areas - was recorded and posted online Thursday by James O'Keefe, a conservative activist. He was joined on the video by another conservative, Hannah Giles, who posed as the prostitute in the filmmakers' undercover sting.
The video shows the pair approaching two women working at the ACORN Baltimore office and asking them for advice on how to set up a prostitution ring involving more than a dozen underage girls from El Salvador.
One of the ACORN workers suggests that Giles refer to herself as a "performing artist" on tax forms and declare some of the girls as dependents to receive child tax credits.
"Stop saying prostitution," the woman, identified by the filmmaker as an ACORN tax expert, tells Giles. The other woman tells them, "You want to keep them clean ... make sure they go to school."
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