“The U.S. government paid for Mitch McConnell's polio treatment as a child.”

Mitch McConnell contracted polio in 1944 at the age of two. He received treatment at the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, a rehabilitation center famously associated with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. While the facility was founded by Roosevelt, it operated as a private, non-profit entity. The funding for the care provided at Warm Springs during that era came from charitable contributions, most notably through the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which later became known as the March of Dimes. There is no evidence that the U.S. federal government provided direct funding for the medical care or rehabilitation services McConnell received at the facility. The claim appears to be a recurring piece of political misinformation designed to contrast McConnell's childhood experience with his later legislative positions on government-funded healthcare.