On Campaign Trail, Joe Biden Highlights Nation鈥檚 Lack Of School Psychologists
School psychologists provide the first line of treatment for children with mental health issues. Quantifying the shortage depends on who鈥檚 counting.
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PolitiFact and 吃瓜不打烊 team up to truth-squad health care claims made by politicians and policymakers.
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Did The ACA Create Preexisting Condition Protections For People In Employer Plans?
Not exactly. We found that protections for preexisting conditions for most people with job-based insurance predated the Affordable Care Act by more than a decade.
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Trump鈥檚 Talk On Preexisting Conditions Doesn鈥檛 Match His Administration鈥檚 Actions
The administration鈥檚 position on a pending lawsuit to get the Affordable Care Act is one of the reasons experts said there鈥檚 cause for skepticism.
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Eric Swalwell鈥檚 Tweet About Georgia鈥檚 New Abortion Restriction Only Slightly Off-Key
The claim by Democratic presidential candidate Eric Swalwell is correct but could use more context and clarification.
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Booker’s Argument For Environmental Justice Stays Within The Lines
He didn鈥檛 overstate the relationship between hazardous waste sites and birth defects and autism.
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Is Insulin’s High Cost Keeping Diabetes Patients From Taking Their Medicine?
An estimated 1.25 million Americans have Type 1 diabetes and cannot live without insulin. Sen. Kamala Harris鈥 claim that 1 in 4 diabetes patients cannot afford their insulin is a shockingly high number, so we decided to dig into the sparse data.
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Newsom: California Leads On Prescription Drugs
California Gov. Gavin Newsom claims that his state is 鈥渓eading the nation in holding drug companies accountable and fighting prescription drug prices.鈥 Is that really the case?
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Klobuchar Wants To Stop 鈥楶ay-For-Delay鈥 Deals That Keep Drug Prices High
It鈥檚 as shady as it sounds.
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Hickenlooper Expanded Medicaid, Created State-Run Marketplace To Insure Nearly All Coloradans
We wondered how Colorado鈥檚 uninsured rate changed during John Hickenlooper鈥檚 time in the governor鈥檚 mansion and how it compares with the rest of the country.
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Mulvaney: Trump Brought Down Drug Prices For The First Time In 50 Years
It鈥檚 "within spitting distance of something that鈥檚 true," said one health economist. But our fact check found it wasn't quite there.