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     COMMENTS: Healthcare Factchecks

ABC's Kate Snow was assigned to Fact Check the advocacy advertising--pro and con--in the healthcare debate with the help of Brooks Jackson of factcheck.org. Snow ended up exasperated. She found "many claims that cannot be proven or disproven…some claims rely on so many assumptions that it is impossible to know whether they will come true or not." On CBS' Sharyl Attkisson checked on whether the legislation will pay for abortions or cover illegal immigrants: on abortion, "two of the bills do not address the question at all;" on immigration "it is unclear."

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