RNC lie: ACA increased premiums. FACT: Premiums went up most between 2000-2008, before ACA
and not one Republican wanted to change that trajectory. The highest growth in premiums was in Bush's first term. Name one Republican who protested those rate hikes.
FactCheck:
They point out that the 3 percent growth from 2009 to 2010 was unusually low. While it’s tough to discern a clear, long-term trend in the growth rates, the annual increase was holding steady at around 5 percent or 5.5 percent from 2007 to 2009. The growth rates had been at 10 percent and higher from 2000 to 2004. (See our chart below, which uses Kaiser’s employer survey numbers.) So, the 3 percent growth rate was “abnormally low,” says John Sheils, senior vice president of The Lewin Group, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group that operates independently of the health care company. He says it “would stand to reason that we’d get a boost” this year, possibly due to recovering losses or catching up on the cost of new equipment. A health policy analyst with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners agreed, saying that it was “not surprising to see it rebound like that.”
http://www.factcheck.org/2011/10/factchecking-health-insurance-premiums/
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