“Today, record numbers of Black Americans have ... health insurance.”
Joe Biden
president. a speech at Morehouse College. Claim dated 19 May 2024.
PolitiFact rated thisCorrect
What PolitiFact found
The Black uninsured rate fell to 10% in 2022, the last full year with available data. That’s a record low.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (president) made this claim around 19 May 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 June 2024, 23 days later. Its rating was “Correct”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/05/19/remarks-by-president…
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