At the end of last year, I wrote that the debate over Obamacare's impact would be settled once its main provisions took effect. Republicans thought out-of-pocket health costs would rise and access to their doctors would decrease; Democrats didn't. "One of two things will happen in 2014," I predicted:
It turns out there was a third option: Reality would be no match for people's partisan predispositions, and Democrats and Republicans would continue to disagree -- even about changes in their personal access to health care. That's exactly what's happened, according to a new survey from Bankrate.