"To be sure, a big part of the decline in healthcare spending is the result of the recession’s impact on people’s ability to lay out cash on health related expenditures. "

Hmm. Might want to read the related articles regarding IRS rulings and predictions as well as examining the actual article again.

So, Obamacare "might" be contributing to some cost reductions - though of course the bulk of the implementation is yet to arrive. Seems a bit early to be talking up Obamacare and dismissing skepticism as somehow "post-truth".

You are free to have your own opinion, you are not however free to have your own facts.

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)