article_snippet: Health care prices are rising at the slowest rate in nearly 50 years, which has helped cut our deficit by two-thirds since I took office,'
article_snippet: Before the Affordable Care Act went into effect, health care costs were projected to be the 'single biggest driver' of new deficits. '
article_snippet: Today, health care is the single biggest factor driving those projections down,'
article_snippet: We have been promised a lot of things these past five years that didn’t turn out to be the case: death panels, doom.
article_snippet: Cost growth is at a historic low.
article_snippet: Deficits have been slashed.