claim: "only after news broke that our veterans are dying because of inadequate health care did harry reid and senate democrats take action."
author: bill cassidy
evidence_1: the number of us veterans who died in 2008 because they lacked health  insurance was 14 times higher than the us military death toll in afghanistan that  year, ... with the election of barack obama as our 44th president and the  installation of a new united states congress has come renewed attention to  health care reform.
evidence_2: politifact national on thursday, september 25th, 2014. false. senate gop  blocked vets bill in february. bill cassidy · "only after news broke that our  veterans are dying because of inadequate health care did harry reid and  senate democrats take action." — politifact national on monday, june 16th,  2014. see them all →.
evidence_3: huey pierce long jr. (august 30, 1893 – september 10, 1935), self-nicknamed  the kingfish, was an american politician who served as the 40th governor of  louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a member of the united states senate from  1932 until his assassination in 1935. as the political leader of louisiana, he ...
evidence_4: jun 17, 2014 ... bill cassidy, r-la., weighed in with a statement: "only after news broke out our  veterans are dying because of inadequate health care did harry reid and  senate democrats take action." the check found cassidy's statement to be  inaccurate. democrats tried to pass an expansion veterans' bill that included ...
evidence_5: joe heck (r), a doctor and brigadier general in the army reserve who served in  iraq, and four third-party candidates in the general election to win retiring senate  minority leader harry reid's (d) seat. her victory on november 8, 2016, made  her the first-ever latina elected to the united states senate. reid's seat was the ...