“500,000 people go bankrupt every year because they cannot pay their outrageous medical bills.”
Bernie Sanders
U.S. Senator (I-Vt.). in a CNN interview. Claim dated 25 Aug 2019.
Washington Post rated thisThree Pinocchios
In short
Bernie Sanders (U.S. Senator (I-Vt.)) made this claim around 25 August 2019. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 29 August 2019, 4 days later. Its rating was “Three Pinocchios”.
Bernie Sanders has 49 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 35 misleading or mixed and 4 true.
Where the claim appeared
- transcripts.cnn.comhttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1908/25/sotu.01.html
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