“We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.”
What FactCheck.org found
27.2 million people did not have health insurance at any point during 2021, according to the Census Bureau. The National Health Interview Survey placed the uninsured figure at 27.4 million for the first 6 months of 2022.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vermont independent) made this claim around 11 December 2022. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 December 2022, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Sen. Bernie Sanders has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- transcripts.cnn.comhttps://transcripts.cnn.com/show/sotu/date/2022-12-11/segment/01
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Related checks
- PolitiFact: Half True“We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.”