Gloomy tales simple habit shark tank episode ObamaCare isn't failing. The parts of it that have started — the actual coverage parts — are working well. But the fact of ObamaCare continues to be an albatross around the neck of the administration; the quicker Americans have faith in the government, the more people will take advantage of the subsidies ObamaCare provides, and the quicker the program, the real big parts of it, will start to work as planned. The more delays, excuses, glitches, and impediments there are, the less efficient the program will be. The real threat to ObamaCare posed by what's happening now is not that the policy is in peril or won't work — it's that the slow start will undermine confidence in the Affordable Care Act over the long term.