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2016 Postmortem

Fawke Em

(11,366 posts) Mon Jan 18, 2016, 03:18 PM Jan 2016

Politifact Rates HRC's 'We now have driven costs down to the lowest they've been in 50 yr' as FALSE

Clinton said during the debate, "We now have driven costs down to the lowest they've been in 50 years."

Although the rate of growth has been at historic lows, the actual per-person cost of health care has increased steadily over the last half century. Only the rate of decline has slowed, a very different measure. The Clinton campaign acknowledges that the candidate misspoke.

We rate her claim as False.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jan/18/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-we-now-have-driven-costs-down-tgo-/