health reform action: Obamacare may be causing a slowdown in health spending

There is clearly a reduction in the rate of increase in health care spending. This trend has been going on for the past decade or so, but appears to have increased in the past two years. It is possible that Obamacare has contributed to this increase. How important is this trend? Does Obama need to make more of a point of this, even if he can't attribute it to Obamacare? What is the best way to get this message out.

Here is the latest article on this.

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.ordownturng/Daily-Reports/2012/August/08/sequestration-and-health-spending-news.aspx

See the article on: Decleration of Health Spending. See me at Thausner@gmail.com for full article. This is an important article.

Here are some of other articles that I have identified of significance on this topic.

NYTimes

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/health/policy/in-hopeful-sign-health-spending-is-flattening-out.html?pagewanted=print

Karen Davis’s blog

http://www.commonwealthfund.

org/Blog/2012/Jun/Whats-

Working-Control-Costs.aspx

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Blog/2012/Jan/Bending-the-Health-Care-Cost-Curve.aspx.

Peter Orszag

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-01/smart-ways-to-keep-the-brake-on-health-care-costs.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-24/medicare-spending-slows-as-hospitals-improve-care-peter-orszag.html

Altarum Institue

http://www.altarum.org/files/imce/CSHS-Spending-Brief_July%202012.pdf

McKinsey Center for U.S. Health Systems Reform