The Affordable Care Act has made the U.S. health-care system stronger

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Author(s)	Kathleen Sebelius
Source	The Washington Post
Date	July 9, 2012
URL	http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kathleen-sebelius-the-affordable-care-act-has-made-the-us-health-care-system-stronger/2012/07/09/gJQA1BOOZW_story.html
Quote	In the decade before the law was passed, national health expenditures increased about 7 percent a year. But in the past two years, those increases have dropped to less than 4 percent per year, saving Americans more than $220 billion. And that trend is expected to continue, with health-care costs projected to stay level as a share of gross domestic product from 2009 all the way through 2013.

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This item argues against the position Act should not have been passed on the topic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.