Claim: Republicans are right: The White House is greatly exaggerating when it says that "women, in particular," benefit from a prevention fund that the House GOP proposes to repeal. The truth is that the fund in question wasn't set up specifically for women's health programs, and we could find no concrete evidence that it has paid anything to gender-specific health programs so far. For example, the fund has paid for programs to discourage tobacco use,
Fact-check: White House Spins Women's Health - FactCheck.org
Verdict: republicans are right: the white house is greatly exaggerating when it says that "women, in particular," benefit from a prevention fund that the house gop proposes to repeal. the truth is that the fund in question wasn't set up specifically for women's health programs, and we could find no concrete evidence that it has paid anything to gender-specific health programs so far. for example, the fund has paid for programs to discourage tobacco use,
Organisation: FactCheck.org
Author: Lori Robertson
Date published: 2012-05-02T22:02:17