Healthcare spending has mostly gone up less than what was projected back in 2010, when the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) passed Congress, writes the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation here, citing Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data.
"In 2010, CMS estimated that national health expenditures for the years 2014 to 2019 would increase by $577 billion" above what they would have been without Obamacare. But by 2014, CMS was projecting "that national health expenditures for 2014 to 2019 would be about $2.5 trillion less" than the 2010 forecast. (Still up. Just up a lot less.)
What explains the slower growth?
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