Bending the cost curve

[Quantum Windbag]

Gotta admit, I saw this one coming all the way back in 2009.

With millions of Americans gaining coverage through President Obama's health care law, health care spending spiked by a staggering 9.9 percent in the first quarter of 2014 -- the fastest rate since 1980 - according to data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Obamacare was pitched as a plan to reduce health care spending, and formally titled the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act." In 2009, Obama called the status quo - in which health care spending was accelerating toward becoming one-fifth of the economy - "unsustainable."
For several years, Obama and his allies had been crediting a slowdown in the rate of growth for health care to payment reforms imposed by the law. But other analysts predicted that spending would pick up as the economy improved and people started loosening the family purse strings.
As I reported earlier this month, there were already signs of growing health care spending in the fourth quarter of 2013, when it jumped 5.6 percent, which had been the fastest clip since 2004.

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