“Right now, we have a dysfunctional health-care system. Eighty-seven million uninsured or under-insured, 500,000 Americans every year going bankrupt because of medical bills, 30,000 people dying while the health-care industry makes tens of billions of dollars in profit.”
Bernie Sanders
U.S. Senator. in a Democratic primary debate. Claim dated 31 Jul 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisMany numbers, fuzzy math
In short
Bernie Sanders (U.S. Senator) made this claim around 31 July 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 31 July 2019. Its rating was “Many numbers, fuzzy math”.
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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