Lie July 14, 2017 · Speech · Health care

Democrats "promised Obamacare would reduce premiums by $2,500. Instead, premiums have skyrocketed by numbers that nobody can even believe – sometimes, many many thousands of dollars.”

Said
July 14, 2017
Where
Speech
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Health care
Repeated
2 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 0792)

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