Donald Trump is often accused of stretching the truth or making things up about virtually every topic he discusses, so it's no surprise that experts would find fault in one of his favorite claims on health care.

In a column Sunday for The Wall Street Journal, Drew Altman, president of the Menlo Park, California-based Kaiser Family Foundation, took on Trump's repeated claim that the Obama administration is preventing premium increases for Affordable Care Act plans from being released until after the Nov. 8 election.

That simply isn't true, explains Altman.

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