“(A recent study) said ‘Medicare for All’ will lower health care costs in this country by $450 billion a year and save the lives of 68,000 people who would otherwise have died.”
Bernie Sanders
Independent Senator from Vermont. During the Democratic debate in South Carolina.. Claim dated 26 Feb 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
In short
Bernie Sanders (Independent Senator from Vermont) made this claim around 26 February 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 26 February 2020. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
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.
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