Far fewer young adults than expected will sign up for Obamacare. If insurers take big losses, will Obama bail them out?

This week, President Obama admitted Americans will have to switch doctors under the ACA, while HHS Secretary Sebelius said premiums would go up in 2015. Nevertheless the ACA is becoming entrenched law.

The special election in Florida was a huge blow to ACA optimists, but spinning out an entire narrative about Obamacare’s demise from one data point is misguided.

Unite Here has gone from friendly petitioning over the ACA to outright opposition. With union leaders and conservatives now committed to opposing the ACA in its current form, what group will join the opposition next?

The failure of large numbers of uninsured to sign up for coverage under the ACA is a huge strike against the law. But it also raises deeper questions about whether a national health care policy is even possible.

The Obama administration is once again allowing insurers to continue offering plans that don’t meet Obamacare’s requirements. This could cause chaos for insurers, but the long-term stability of the law is apparently less important to the Democrats than making it through the midterms unscathed.

Obamacare boosts American incomes, leading more people to consume more health care. This helps to explain both why the law is unpopular and why Americans don’t want to return to the pre-ACA situation.

Democratic governors have good reason to worry about how Obamacare is playing in their states. This week’s piece of bad news: the ACA could increase premiums for 65 percent of small businesses.

Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has become the first Democratic Senator to publicly come out in favor of repeal. It’s official: The survival of Obamacare is no longer just a Republican fantasy.

If Obamacare is not settled law, but continually in the process of being settled, it will become harder for the law’s proponents to treat any attempts to change it as affronts to some untouchable consensus.