Not only has the Affordable Care Act embarrassed national media and right wing doomsayers by blowing through its enrollment estimates and saving our economy from contracting in the first quarter of this year, but to the surprise of exactly no one who's examined the Affordable Care Act honestly and without partisan or ideological lenses, Obamacare continues to meet and exceed its goal of keeping costs down, recent data shows.

For a long while, even as the Affordable Care Act has been effective in keeping growth of health care costs at historic lows, pundits and Obamacare's detractors have refused to give the ACA any credit, saying that health care spending growth is down because of the soft economy. That argument grows spurious everyday as the economy grows stronger and as more and more people gain health insurance, lessening the need to hold back or put off medical expenditures.

There has of course been an increase in total spending as the market absorbs millions of new health insurance enrollees who are able to actually accrue health care expenses for the first time in a long time, if not for the first time ever. But the ACA has been remarkably successful in keeping per capita spending growth down, as well as arresting the growth of health care prices. For the first time in half a century, health care price growth is now matching overall price inflation (as it has been since the Obamacare began its long implementation process).