[ThunderSleeps]

...opponents of the health care law insist that it has failed, though it has reduced the number of uninsured Americans to the lowest level in history...

The NYT does realize that they made having health care coverage mandatory, right? That not having coverage is punishable by ever increasing fines, right? Sure you can increase participation in something by forcing everyone to get it... That's not exactly a mark of success.

In fact it is basically an admission of failure. If obamacare was even half as good as its proponents claim it is, people would flock to it. You wouldn't have to threaten and penalize them if they did not.

[Alberta's Child]

Therein lies the problem. There aren't a lot of people who have actually complied with ObamaCare as originally envisioned. Many people simply got an exemption, and most of the newly insured are simply Medicaid enrollees who were already eligible but never signed up.

The end result is that insurance companies and government-run insurance plans are actually covering more people now who are less healthy and need more care. Many healthy people are simply paying the penalty and biding their time. That's why insurance rates are going through the roof.