Health-care reform hanging by a thread?

America’s new health-care law is six months old, but whether it lives to see its final provisions go into effect in 2014 and beyond is a difficult prognosis to make.

On Sept. 23, several of the law’s most far-reaching changes went into effect, including prohibiting insurance companies from canceling coverage if the policyholder gets sick. Other provisions now prohibit insurance companies from setting lifetime dollar limits on coverage and allow young adults to stay on or return to their family’s health insurance policy until their 26th birthday.

Most non-partisan Americans would probably say these are changes that were needed to protect them…