THE HILL: ObamaCare Premium Hikes Leave Democrats Exposed:

Democrats are increasingly acknowledging that the Affordable Care Act has an affordability problem.

Former President Bill Clinton said recently that people who are ineligible to get subsidies to buy ObamaCare insurance are “getting killed.”

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton said this month that “the reality is the Affordable Care Act is no longer affordable to increasing numbers of people.”

Even President Obama said in a speech last week that “there are going to be people who are hurt by premium increases.”

Every one of these Democrats made the argument that ObamaCare is working well for most people and that the problem of rising premiums is specifically focused on a minority of consumers who earn too much money to qualify for federal subsidies.

Clinton said the system “works fine” for people who get subsidies under the law to help them afford coverage, while Dayton said that “the law is working” for most enrollees and that those negatively affected amount to about 2 percent of Minnesotans, with individual coverage.

Yet the problems with the law are leaving Democrats exposed to GOP attacks.

Republicans have been beating the drum about higher premium increases this year, which are on average about 25 percent for a benchmark plan, the administration said Monday.

Well, maybe if they hadn’t passed a bad law on a party-line vote using a technicality to slip it through, they wouldn’t be “exposed to GOP attacks.”