“When the health care system is deliberately f’ed up, it will slow down to a certain extent.”
When people with their new Obamacare policies realize the amount they will have to pay out of pocket to satisfy deductibles and copays, they will not be consuming healthcare and spending will decline.
However, the new subsidized Medicaid signups will likely be heavy users of the now free services. It may be we will see the lower middle class and middle class using less healthcare due to the high deductibles and copays while the government subsidized poor use more.