Lie September 22, 2017 · Rally · Health care

“We have VA worker accountability. For 40 years they've been trying to get it passed, they couldn't. I will not blame the unions and I will not blame civil service. But that was the problem, OK? You have the unions, you have the -- they didn't want it. For 40 years, they couldn't get it passed. So you would have people working in the VA who were sadists, who would abuse our great, great people, our great veterans.”

Said
September 22, 2017
Where
Campaign rally
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Health care
Repeated
119 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 1208)

Search every health care lie → All 2017 lies

More lies about health care

  1. Sep 6, 2017 · Speech“One vote. One vote. Think of it -- one vote. Terrible. A terrible situation took place that night.”
  2. Oct 13, 2017 · Remarks“The insurance companies that made a fortune, that money was a subsidy and almost, you could say, a payoff for insurance companies.”
  3. Oct 13, 2017 · Remarks“The CSR payments, if you take a look at CSR payments, that money is going to insurance companies to prop up insurance companies. That money is going to insurance companies to lift up their stock price, and that's not…
  4. Oct 13, 2017 · Remarks“I don’t want to make the insurance companies rich. If you look at their stock price over the last number of years — take a look at what’s happened with those insurance companies — they’re making a fortune by getting…
  5. Oct 16, 2017 · Remarks“We've had healthcare approved, and then you had the surprise vote by John McCain.”
  6. Oct 16, 2017 · Press conference“So the insurance companies have made a fortune with Obamacare -- an absolute fortune.”