"Obamacare" Is Working

"Obamacare" continues to succeed, and of course, we continue to not hear about from most of our supposedly "liberal[ly] bias[ed]" news media:

The growth of federal spending on health care will continue to decline as a proportion of the overall economy in the coming decades, in part because of cost controls mandated by President Obama’s health care law, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday.

 

The budget office said in its annual 25-year forecast that federal spending on major health care programs would amount to 8 percent of gross domestic product by 2039, one-tenth of a percentage point lower than its previous projection.

 

With the latest revision, the budget office has now reduced its 10-year estimate for spending by Medicare, Medicaid and other health programs by $1.23 trillion starting in 2010, the year the health care law took effect. By 2039, the savings would amount to $250 billion a year today, or about 1.5 percent of the economy.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/16/business/budget-office-revises-estimate-of-federal-spending-on-health-care.html?_r=0

It should be noted that this is a forecast - we can't know the state of the 2029 economy in 2014. However, the health reform that critics excoriated as "out-of-control spending" is set to make dreaded gubmint programs work more efficiently - not less.

In other words: Obama was right!