What does President Obama mean when he says "bending the curve"?

Bending the curve in this context would mean an effort to reduce the growth in health care costs : On a graph, the line representing growth will start bending downwards.

Bending the curve can mean to turn the worsened situation back to normal. He must be referring to any such worsened situation like bad economy etc and taking it back to normal.

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