“[Steve] Bullock’s health care plan will force rural hospitals to close. Medicare as we know it will change, replaced by a government-run program with fewer doctors and longer wait times.”
What PolitiFact found
It's not clear that the implementation of a public option for health insurance would lead to lower reimbursement rates and cause rural hospitals to close. Medicare is already a government-run program.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
National Republican Senatorial Committee (Senatorial Committee) made this claim around 17 July 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 August 2020, 32 days later. Its rating was “False”.
National Republican Senatorial Committee has 18 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 7 of them false or fake, 9 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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