That infamous CBO report on Obamacare and jobs shows that opposition to the ACA isn’t going anywhere because Obamacare will keep making big messes.

Some tension between the executive and legislative branches is normal, but recent divisions look deeper than normal and possibly more consequential. The force really pulling Democrats in different directions isn’t trade or even green issues. It’s the dog that doesn’t bark, the issue that isn’t there to unite Democrats.

Two union bosses are responding to the State of the Union by slamming the Obama administration’s refusal to meet their demands regarding the Affordable Care Act, and a new Kaiser Health tracking poll conducted January 14–21 shows that the ACA is less popular with the uninsured than it was in December.

One reader’s Obamacare story: We met with our broker the second week in October. It’s nearly February. We still don’t have our coverage figured out. From now on, I’m calling it Kafkacare.

Moody’s has just downgraded health insurers from a stable to a negative outlook, based largely on the disruption Obamacare has introduced. If insurers start to get more and more worried about how Obamacare will affect their prospects, the ACA could risk losing a major ally.

If you were uninsured before Obamacare, you’re probably still uninsured. The WSJ reports that new analysis of early enrollment data shows that vast majority of those who signed up for Obamacare had insurance before. Instead of actually helping the uninsured, the ACA is currently just inducing demand for a different kind of insurance product among those well-off enough to have had insurance already. This law was supposed to be a huge leap forward in health care policy, the centerpiece of a progressive agenda designed to expand access to health care while reducing costs. So far, it hasn’t fulfilled a single one of these promises, and our broken health care system stands just as much as ever in need of radical new solutions.

New data is out on the 2.2 million people who signed up for insurance by the first signup deadline (December 24th), and the pool is much older than the general uninsured population. Insurers hoped that the percentage of non-elderly adults under 35 would be closer to 40 percent, rather than the 25 percent we actually see. Before this data came out, health care think tank the Kaiser Family Foundation insurers hoped that the percentage of non-elderly adults under 35 would be closer to 40 percent, rather than the 25 percent we actually see. said that it would be a “worst-case scenario” if only 25 percent of non-elderly enrollees were in the 18-34 age group by the end of open enrollment on March 31st of this year.

Surprise, surprise: now that Affordable Care Act insurance has gone into effect, people are having trouble using it at hospitals.Even if these problems are solved, the almost unending streams of obstacles, challenges, and screw-ups associated with the law’s launch will leave a lingering bad taste in people’s mouths into the foreseeable future. The longer the ACA continues to provide access in name only, the more likely people are to form a settled negative opinion about it that will be difficult to overturn.

A Massachusetts health care commission has found that one-third of state health care spending is wasted on inefficient medical procedures. One of the biggest talking points for health care reform is that the US spends much more on health care than other countries, but has worse health statistics, and the financial waste in our system is always identified as a big cause of our inflated spending. But if Massachusetts is any evidence, we’re no closer to reducing systemic waste in a post-ACA world than we were before

Electronic health records have just received their second big setback: a new study finds that EHRs might increase costs across the health care system by leading to providers to over-bill. The ACA poured billions into a technology that hadn’t been fully tested. The problems with EHRs mostly spring from the failure of government agencies to carefully observe them in action on a smaller scale, and then to develop proper standards to make the technology effective on a larger scale. Pushing forward new programs or technologies before we fully understand how they work best is a textbook central-planning fail.