Usable News Aggregation. http://cloudgate.1080degrees.net Stories are owned by their respective publishers. Aggregation techniques copyright 2008 CloudGate. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:54:39 GMT The health-care overhaul enacted last spring won't significantly change national health spending over the next decade compared with projections before the law was passed, according to government figures set to be released Thursday. (gulliversisland.newsvine.com) http://gulliversisland.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/09/5075094-federal-number-crunchers-casts-fresh-doubt-on-democrats-argument-that-the-health-care-law-would-curb-the-sharp-increase-in-costs-over-the-long-term http://gulliversisland.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/09/5075094-federal-number-crunchers-casts-fresh-doubt-on-democrats-argument-that-the-health-care-law-would-curb-the-sharp-increase-in-costs-over-the-long-term Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:10:17 GMT By covering more Americans under the healthcare overhaul, costs will increase over the next decade, but not substantially more than if the law had not been enacted, an independent government analysis finds. Pushed by a dramatic increase in the number of Americans who will get insurance under the new healthcare law, total U.S. medical spending will continue to gallop upward, consuming nearly 20% of the economy by 2019, according to a new government estimate. (feeds.chicagotribune.com) http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/~r/chicagotribune/news/~3/ZdPhbig-zKI/la-na-health-costs-20100909,0,6171715.story http://feeds.chicagotribune.com/~r/chicagotribune/news/~3/ZdPhbig-zKI/la-na-health-costs-20100909,0,6171715.story