ObamaMESS weighs heavy in the upcoming New Hampshire Senate Race

Sen Jeanne Shaheen                 Scott Brown

New Hampshire's rollout of the Affordable Care Act has been one of the rockiest in the nation, putting Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen on the front lines of Republican efforts to make the 2014 elections a referendum on the health law. 

Only a single insurer in the state offers policies through the new law. Ten of the state's 26 hospitals and one fifth of its primary care providers aren't in its network. Residents of Concord, the state capital, have to drive to other cities to get covered hospital care.

How's that for competition? ONE INSURER serving

The entire state.

If Ms. Shaheen can weather those conditions, Democrats say it would bode well for the party's candidates who adopt the message she helped pioneer: Fix the health law, don't end it. 

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Ms. Shaheen is counting on the forgiving stance of voters such as David Kenny, a Dover art dealer who tried more than 200 times to sign up for insurance on the government's balky website. But after landing a $26-a-month policy for his wife, Runjuan Huang, he is delighted with the law. Mr. Kenny said he had disagreements with Ms. Shaheen in the past, but now supports her.

The senator faces a challenge, however, in voters such as Jocelyn Caple, a Rochester physician and mother of two. Last summer, Dr. Caple was notified that her insurance policy would be terminated, though she later received a one-year reprieve. Rochester's Frisbie Memorial Hospital, where she works and sees her own doctors, was excluded from the network run by Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the single insurer offering policies under the health law.

Without changes, Dr. Caple said she would have to drop her doctor of 17 years and travel to another city for care if she buys insurance next year on HealthCare.gov. A Democrat who voted for Ms. Shaheen, she is no longer sure she would do so again. "I will vote on this issue," she said. "Who is going to step up and make sure this law accomplishes what it needs to?"

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