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WASHINGTON -- The healthcare reform law will not slow the growth of healthcare spending in the next decade -- in fact, it will accelerate healthcare spending slightly -- but it will also significantly expand healthcare coverage, a new government report found.n
n'); } The report, issued by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of the Actuary, casts doubt on predictions from the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats that healthcare reform would slow the trajectory of healthcare spending.The CMS analysis pegs healthcare spending growth at an average rate of 6.3 percent over the next decade, or 0.2 percentage points faster than healthcare spending would have grown had the Affordable Care Act (ACA) not become law.
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