PoltiFact: Clinton’s false claims on low healthcare costs

During the Democrat presidential debate, Hillary Clinton stated: “We have the Affordable Care Act. Let’s make it work. 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.” PoltiFact,

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 decided to check the vital signs of this claim.

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.