David_N
DP Veteran
- Joined
- Sep 26, 2015
- Messages
- 6,562
- Reaction score
- 2,769
- Location
- The United States
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Liberal
Clinton is wrong. The healthcare costs in this country are disgusting, and the ACA is not the answer. (Maybe she answered wrong and meant to talk about price inflation being low. :lol
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...y-clinton-we-now-have-driven-costs-down-tgo-/
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...y-clinton-we-now-have-driven-costs-down-tgo-/
"We have the Affordable Care Act. Let's make it work," Clinton said. "We now have driven costs down to the lowest they've been in 50 years. Now we've got to get individual costs down. That's what I'm planning to do."
Health care costs are the lowest in 50 years? That's probably news to consumers who keep seeing their premiums and copays going up.
We found that Clinton was incorrect. The actual per-person cost of health care has increased steadily over the last half-century, according to a 2013 White House report.
When we contacted the Clinton campaign, spokesman Nick Merrill said what Clinton was actually talking about was the rate at which health care costs have been going up.
"Health care price inflation is at its lowest rate in 50 years," he said in an email, adding that it is "currently running at just 1 percent on a year-over-year basis, the lowest level since January 1962."
He cited the same White House report from November 2013 to support that assertion.
PolitiFact has touched on this issue before.