Obama: No premium hike for 'vast majority' covered on government exchanges

On the day House Republicans had scheduled a vote to repeal and replace Obamacare, the man whose name became synonymous with the sweeping health care law touted its accomplishments. Marking the seventh anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, former President Barack Obama released a statement saying that after a century of talk, "we finally declared that in America, health care is not a privilege for a few, but a right for everybody."

"Reality continues to discredit the false claim that this law is in a ‘death spiral,’ because while it’s true that some premiums have risen, the vast majority of Marketplace enrollees have experienced no average premium hike at all," he wrote.

We decided to vet the assertion that on average, the vast majority of people who signed up on a federal or state marketplaces saw no premium hike at all....
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/mar/23/barack-obama/obama-no-premium-hike-vast-majority-covered-govern/