“Was it 150 million people on private insurance? 50 million of those people lose their private insurance every year when they quit their jobs, or they go unemployed, or their employer changes their insurance policy.”
Bernie Sanders
U.S. Senator. in the Democratic presidential debate in Houston. Claim dated 12 Sep 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
In short
Bernie Sanders (U.S. Senator) made this claim around 12 September 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 September 2019, 1 day later. 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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