Claim: The Medicare proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., would "allow insurance companies to deny you coverage and drop you for pre-existing conditions."
Fact-check: Debbie Wasserman Schultz says Ryan Medicare plan would allow insurers to use pre-existing conditions as barrier to coverage
Verdict: false
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2011-06-01T00:00:00