copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: “24 of every 100 kids in school today speak Spanish.” (Joe Biden, 2020-09-15)
Evidence (2020-05-02): Learn how to speak Spanish with lessons, courses, audio, activities and quizzes. Including Spanish Alphabet, phrases, vocabulary, pronunciation, parts of speeches, grammar and many more.
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2022-12-11): The Commonwealth Fund, a respected source of data on health care research, found in 2022 that 43% percent of working-age adults ages 19 to 64 were uninsured or inadequately insured. That adds up to about 85 million adults. About 17.7 million adults were uninsured, according to the Commonwealth analysis. People who were uninsured for a year or longer were disproportionately young, Hispanic, poor, unhealthy and living in the South.
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2024-07-25): Biden’s Numbers, July 2023 Update July 27, 2023 Our latest update of what’s happened in the U.S. under Biden’s presidency. [...] Biden’s Numbers, January 2023 Update January 23, 2023 Here’s how the United States has fared since President Joe Biden took office two years ago. Bernie Sanders Overstates Number of Americans Without Health Insurance December 13, 2022 Explaining why he is likely to vote against an $858 billion defense spending bill, Sen. Bernie Sanders wrongly said there are "85 million Americans who have no health insurance."
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2022-09-13): This report presents statistics on health insurance coverage in the United States based on information collected in the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC). Information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions is available at https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/techdocs/cpsmar22.pdf [PDF - <1.0 MB]. The Census Bureau reviewed this data product for unauthorized disclosure of confidential information and approved the disclosure avoidance practices applied to this release. CBDRB-FY22-355.
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2023-11-09): In the decade before the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, the uninsured rate averaged 15.0 percent. In 2014, provisions of the ACA went into effect that enabled states to expand Medicaid eligibility and establish health insurance marketplaces. While outcomes varied by state, those policy changes contributed to a 3.0-percentage-point decrease in the share of uninsured people nationally in the initial year. As additional states adopted Medicaid expansion in the mid-2010s, the uninsured rate continued to drop, falling below 10.0 percent and remaining there since. [...] Every year since the enactment of the ACA, the uninsured rate has been lower for all age groups than it was before its implementation. The uninsured rate for Americans age 65 and older slightly decreased by 0.1 percentage points between 2021 and 2022, but it remains the lowest of any age group as 93.5 percent of such individuals were covered by Medicare in 2022. [...] Heading into the pandemic, non-white Americans had the highest rates of being uninsured. This still holds true in the data from the pandemic, as those are also the groups that have been the most heavily affected by COVID-19 in regard to employment and health. In 2022, 41.6 percent of the population were people of color, but they accounted for 58.3 percent of the uninsured population.
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2024-07-10): In 2023, 25 million people in the United States had no health insurance. The share of Americans without health insurance saw a steady increase from 2015 to 2019 before starting to decline in 2020 to 2023. Factors like the implementation of Medicaid expansion in additional states and growth in private health insurance coverage led to the decline in uninsured population, despite the economic challenges due to the pandemic in 2020. [...] In the U.S. there are public and private forms of health insurance, as well as social welfare programs such as Medicaid and programs just for veterans such as CHAMPVA. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was enacted in 2010, which dramatically reduced the share of uninsured Americans, though there’s still room for improvement. In spite of its success in providing more Americans with health insurance, ACA has had an almost equal number of proponents and opponents since its introduction, though the share of Americans in favor of it has risen since mid-2017 to the majority. [...] The share of uninsured people is higher in certain demographic groups. For instance, Hispanics continue to be the ethnic group with the highest rate of uninsured people, even after ACA. Meanwhile the share of uninsured White and Asian people is lower than the national average.
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2019-08-28): In 2018, 58 percent of uninsured adults had incomes below 200 percent of the federal poverty level ($24,120 for an individual and $49,200 for a family of four). Across age groups, young adults ages 19 to 34 made up the largest share of the uninsured. More than one-third of the uninsured were Latino even though Latinos make up 18 percent of the working-age adult population (Table 1). We examined the remaining uninsured by income status to determine whether they might be eligible for subsidized coverage. The ACA provides subsidized insurance through two sources: Medicaid for adults who earn less than 138 percent of poverty ($16,643 for an individual or $33,948 for a family of four) in states that expanded Medicaid, and subsidized plans in the ACA marketplaces for those who earn up to 400 percent of poverty ($48,240 for an individual and $98,400 for a family of four). [...] Nearly half (47%) of uninsured adults in 2018 had incomes that may make them eligible for either expanded Medicaid or subsidized marketplace plans. The remainder of uninsured adults would not qualify for either: 11 percent earn below 100 percent of poverty and live in a state that did not expand Medicaid;5 8 percent have incomes at or above 400 percent of poverty and are ineligible for the tax credits; and 25 percent were foreign-born Latinos and may be ineligible for Medicaid or subsidized plans because of their immigration status.
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2023-01-02): Fact Check: 85 million Americans without health insurance? Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who has pushed the Democratic Party to expand access for health care, said during CNN's "State of the Union" show on Dec. 11 that "We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance." PolitiFact checks those numbers. Reporter : Paul SpechtPosted 2023-01-02T18:12:31-0500 - Updated 2023-01-02T18:12:31-0500
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2021-09-14): This report presents statistics on health insurance coverage in the United States based on information collected in the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC). Information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions is available at https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/techdocs/cpsmar21.pdf [PDF - <1.0 MB]. The Census Bureau reviewed this data product for unauthorized disclosure of confidential information and approved the disclosure avoidance practices applied to this release. CBDRB-FY21-POP001-0193.
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2024-06-21): The overall number of Americans without health insurance dropped by 8.2 million from 2019 to 2023. These findings are included in a new report by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The findings are featured in the report, "Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, 2023." It shows that among working-age Americans (those ages 18–64), 10.9% did not have health insurance in 2023, a decrease from 14.7% in 2019. [...] - In 2023, almost 1 in 4 Hispanic adults ages 18–64 (24.8%) lacked health insurance, a greater percentage than Black, non-Hispanic adults (10.4%), White, non-Hispanic adults (6.8%) and Asian, non-Hispanic adults (4.4%).
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2024-08-22): Number of people without health insurance in the United States from 1997 to 2023 (in millions) [...] Share of adults aged 18–64 years without health insurance in the United States from 2015 to 2023, by gender [...] Share of adults aged 18-64 years without health insurance in the United States from 2010 to 2023, by state Medicaid expansion status
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2024-08-06): Number of Americans without health insurance rises in 2024, breaking streak of record-low figures More than 8% of Americans did not have health insurance during the first months of 2024, according to new survey findings published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, breaking a streak of record-low uninsured rates following the COVID-19 pandemic. [...] Recent estimates by the Congressional Budget Office have also forecast that the U.S. uninsured rate would worsen over the coming years. In addition to the end of pandemic-era insurance policies, the CBO's modelers pointed to a surge in immigration as another factor that would likely drive up uninsured rates.
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2023-05-18): The overall number of Americans without health insurance dropped by 5.6 million from 2019 to 2022. These findings are included in a new report to be released on Tuesday by CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The findings are featured in the report, "Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, 2022." It shows that among working-age Americans (those ages 18–64), 12.2% did not have health insurance in 2022, a decrease from 14.7% in 2019. [...] - In 2022, more than 1 in 4 Hispanic adults ages 18–64 (27.6%) lacked health insurance, a greater percentage than Black, non-Hispanic adults (13.3%), White, non-Hispanic adults (7.4%) and Asian, non-Hispanic adults (7.1%).
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2022-09-29): The Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey, 2022, was conducted by SSRS from March 28 through July 4, 2022. The survey consisted of telephone and online interviews in English and Spanish and was conducted among a random, nationally representative sample of 8,022 adults age 19 and older living in the continental United States. A combination of address-based, SSRS Opinion Panel, and prepaid cell phone samples were used to reach people. In all, 3,716 interviews were conducted online or on the phone via ABS, 3,656 were conducted online via the SSRS Opinion Panel, and 650 were conducted on prepaid cell phones. [...] Underinsured adults are individuals who are insured all year but report at least one of three indicators of financial exposure relative to income: 1) out-of-pocket costs, excluding premiums, are equal to 10 percent or more of household income; or 2) out-pocket-costs, excluding premiums, are equal to 5 percent or more of household income (if living under 200 percent of the federal poverty level); or 3) their deductible is 5 percent or more of household income. For each of the three underinsurance component measures, there are borderline cases for which the income ranges provided are too imprecise to categorize the respondent into "less than" or "more than" the stated underinsurance component. Previously, the Fund redistributed borderline cases for each component by conducting a 50/50 split into the "less than" and "more than" categories. This year we leveraged the imputed income ranges and random exact incomes generated to determine poverty status to categorize borderline cases.
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2023-12-18): Uninsured individuals often face unaffordable medical bills when they do seek care. These bills can quickly translate into medical debt since most people who are uninsured have low or moderate incomes and have little, if any, savings. - Those without insurance for an entire calendar year pay for almost 40% of their care out-of-pocket.28 In addition, hospitals frequently charge uninsured patients higher rates than those paid by private health insurers and public programs.29, 30, 31, 32 - Uninsured nonelderly adults are much more likely than their insured counterparts to lack confidence in their ability to afford usual medical costs. Over eight in ten (85%) of uninsured nonelderly adults say they have difficulty affording health care costs, compared to 47% of adults with insurance (Figure 10).
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2022-12-11): Bernie Sanders said 85 million Americans have no health insurance. That includes underinsured. [...] "We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance," Sanders said Dec. 11 on CNN’s "State of the Union." [...] Casca referred us to a 2022 survey by the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that is a respected source of health care research. The survey found that 43% of working-age adults 19 to 64, or about 85 million Americans, were uninsured or inadequately insured. Specifically:
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2017-01-18): President Obama asked each member of his Cabinet to write an Exit Memo on the progress we’ve made, their vision for the country’s future, and the work that remains in order to achieve that vision. Here are their key points on the work ahead to improve health for all Americans. Building on the Progress of the ACA "Repealing the ACA, as some have suggested, risks rolling back consumer protections – like making it illegal to discriminate against those with pre-existing conditions and improving benefits – for Americans who get health insurance through the Marketplace, Medicare, Medicaid, or on the job. A recent study shows nearly 30 million Americans would lose their coverage under one version of repeal as well. We can work together to make the system even better, but we should build on the progress we’ve made, not go backwards." Reforming the Health Care Delivery System "Building on the successful models developed during this Administration, while seeking out opportunities to extend value-based payment to an even broader range of providers and health care services, including high-cost drugs, not only benefits patients but allows clinicians the flexibility to practice medicine in the way that best meets the needs of their patients. The passage of MACRA was a monumental step forward in the effort to reward quality and value in physician payments; however, additional federal legislation should be considered that would use payment incentives to drive the delivery of value-based health care throughout the entire health care system, improve the interoperability of data, and integrate care."
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2024-09-01): - Prevalence in seniors: The percentage of Americans age 65 and older remains high, at 29.2%, or 16.5 million seniors (diagnosed and undiagnosed). [...] - 13.6% of American Indians/Alaskan Native adults - 12.1% of non-Hispanic Black adults - 11.7% of Hispanic adults - 9.1% of Asian American adults - 6.9% of non-Hispanic White adults [...] - 13.3% Puerto Rican - 11.1% Mexican or Mexican American - 9.4% Dominican - 9.0% Cuban - Central American, South American, and other Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish adults had prevalences ranging from 5.0%-7.3%
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2023-06-28): The bad news is that the US healthcare system is broken and dysfunctional. We spend twice as much per capita as almost any other country, nearly $13,000 per year, while 85 million Americans remain uninsured or underinsured. In addition, our health outcomes are often worse. In terms of life expectancy, for example, we live far shorter lives than the people of many other industrialized nations. [...] For many years members of Congress have talked about these crises. Now is the time to act. As chairman of the US Senate health, education, labor and pensions (Help) committee I am working hard to pass bipartisan legislation which will transform our primary healthcare system so that every American, no matter where they live or what their income might be, can get the care they need when they need it. If we increased funding for primary care by $130bn over five years, through a combination of increased federal funding and the elimination of some of the enormous waste and bureaucracy in the current healthcare system, we could double the number of people using community health centers and come close to providing primary healthcare to every person in America.
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2024-09-09): For over 15 years, robust access to mental health care has been a bipartisan priority. Thanks to the 2008 enactment of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA), which was further strengthened in 2020 on a bipartisan basis, health plans that cover mental health and substance use care benefits must do so at the same level as physical health care benefits. But despite this landmark law, too many Americans still struggle to find and afford the care they need. In 2020, less than half of all adults with mental illness received treatment. For children, the numbers are even worse: nearly 70 percent of our kids who seek care for mental health or substance use cannot get it. That’s in part because insurers too often make it difficult to access mental health treatment, causing millions of consumers to have high out-of-pocket costs because they go out-of-network, or defer care altogether. One study shows that insured people are nearly four times as likely go out-of-network and pay higher fees for mental health care than for physical health care. And the problem is getting worse: in recent years, the gap between usage of out-of-network care for mental health and substance use disorder benefits versus physical health benefits increased 85 percent. [...] - Close existing loopholes. When MHPAEA was first enacted, it did not require non-federal governmental health plans, like those offered to state and local government employees, to comply with its requirements. Today’s final rule closes that loophole, and now requires more than 200 additional health plans to comply with MHPAEA, providing critical protections to 120,000 consumers.
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2024-10-06): It affects up to 25 percent of children and 2 to 3 percent of adults.8 [...] This condition affects an estimated 80 million Americans — 50 million men and 30 million women.11 [...] Childbirth, major surgery, high fever or severe infection, stress, or even the flu.
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2023-05-18): "The American people understand, as I do, that health care is a human right, not a privilege," said Sanders. "It is not acceptable to me, nor to the American people, that over 85 million people today are either uninsured or underinsured. As we speak, there are millions of people who would like to go to a doctor but cannot afford to do so. That is an outrage. In America, your health and your longevity should not be dependent on your bank account or your stock portfolio. After all the lives that we lost to this terrible pandemic, it is clearer now, perhaps more than it has ever been before, that we must act to end the international embarrassment of the United States being the only major country on earth to not guarantee health care to all." [...] Today in the U.S., 68,000 Americans die each year because they cannot afford the health care they desperately need, millions more suffer unnecessarily because of delayed treatment, and more than 85 million Americans are uninsured or under-insured because of high deductibles and premiums. In addition, health care spending in the U.S. constitutes over 18 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Yet health outcomes, life expectancy, and infant mortality rates in the U.S. remain much worse than many other major countries. The U.S. has the highest infant mortality rate of almost any other major country on earth.
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2003-07-16): Health seekers go online to become informed, to prepare for appointments and surgery, to share information, and to seek and provide support. [...] - Search for health information at any time of the day or night. [...] In addition to information searches, Internet users are increasingly going to disease- or situation-specific support sites and using email to discuss health issues with family, friends, and (to a lesser degree) doctors.
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2003-11-12): New York City, November 12, 2003—Nearly two of five (38%) Americans under age 65, and more than two-thirds (68%) of those with low incomes, had no health insurance at some point during 1996-1999, according to a new analysis for The Commonwealth Fund of a survey that tracks coverage over time. The number of people with a time uninsured during these four years—85 million—is more than double the number who were uninsured at any one point in time or any one year during 1996 to 1999. The longer view provided by the four-year time period reveals that unstable insurance put millions more at risk than the numbers estimated from annual "snapshots" by year. These higher rates are due to millions of people cycling on and off coverage, or "churning." [...] "These high rates uninsured indicate that far greater numbers of Americans are at risk of going without needed health care, having difficulties paying medical bills, and experiencing financial stress than we see in any annual survey," said Cathy Schoen, vice president at The Commonwealth Fund. "Insurance churning disrupts and undermines efforts to provide timely medical care and likely raises public and private health insurance costs due to frequent cycling on and off coverage." [...] Churning on and off coverage was a frequent problem. One third of all those with a time uninsured—28 million people—had multiple spells without insurance as they gained and lost coverage over time. Nearly two of five (38%) of those living on low incomes had more than one time when they were uninsured.