MALVEAUX: While, the justices are debating health care behind closed doors at the Supreme Court, the politicians are hashing it out on the campaign trail. Angie Holan from Politifacts.com, here to sort out the facts from fiction. All right, let's start with Rick Santorum. Polls show Americans are opposed to Obama-care. What do we think? True or false?</s>ANGIE HOLAN, POLITIFACTS.COM & TAMPA BAY TIMES: We rated this one mostly true. Now with regards to the retirement that people buy insurance, that's pretty overwhelming. Recent polls that in the 66 percent, 67 percent range. Now, we docked him one point because the polls tighten a lot when you ask people how they feel about health care overall. 40e percent in favor, 53 percent opposed. That doesn't reach our standard of overwhelming. So mostly true.</s>MALVEAUX: The president claims that his administration reduced the cost of prescription drugs for nearly 3.6 million Americans in 2011. What do we think?</s>HOLAN: We gave him a rating of true for this statement. Now, this goes back to some of the changes to Medicare that were part of the health care law. You remember this doughnut hole where seniors' prescription drugs are covered. The law starts phasing out the doughnut hole. We ran these numbers by health care experts. They said yes, the doughnut hold phase out meets this threshold that he said. So we rated it true.</s>MALVEAUX: Finally, new video from Republican Senators says this claim that up to 80 percent of small businesses -- oh, we understand the president is speaking at the White House. We're going to let this one go, wrap this up and go directly to President Obama.
As Supreme Court Debates Health Care, Candidates Thrash it out on Campaign Trail