It is newsworthy because a high controversial, much maligned piece of legislation is working despite a large opposition who insisted (to put it very nicely) that it would not.
To put it nicely, a large number of people believed it when legislators had claimed previously that they understood that the fact that Americans spend at least one-sixth of their money on medical care was a problem, and that they would attempt to deal with this bureaucracy and inefficiency. To put it nicely, a large number of people were quite surprised when a number of legislators claimed never to have read it even as they voted on it. To put it nicely, no one is surprised at the fact that when someone puts a gun to your head and asks you to buy something, you buy it. To put it nicely, if that's what you call "working" then yes, I'd have to agree that the PPACA is working very nicely. Here, buy this or pay a fine. That all works out very nicely, doesn't it?
A nominal fine is a gun to the head.
No hyperbole here.
