Opponents declared Affordable Care a failure even before its core parts took effect on January 1, 2014, and the national media is full of Perils-of-Pauline coverage exaggerating every glitch.
Hardly a day passes without headlines pronouncing doom for reform and its Democratic
proponents. In a time of partisan polarization and 24-hour news, it’s just too easy for most
observers to treat the implementation of this epochal reform as a national political horse-race.