Medicare spent $473 billion less between 2009 and 2014 than it would have if previous cost-growth trends had continued, a marker of a slowdown in healthcare spending, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Tuesday.
The announcement comes around the sixth anniversary of ObamaCare as part of the administration’s effort to highlight some of the lesser-known parts of the law, such as reforms to Medicare payments, that can help limit cost growth.
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