In an attempt to disarm Obamacare as an election year issue Democrats have taken to repeating the mantra that the law is working.

At a recent speech to students at Northwestern University President Obama said that, “while good, affordable health care might seem like a fanged threat to the freedom of the American people on Fox News, it turns out it’s working pretty well in the real world.”

Which begs the question, what real world does President Obama occupy? Because it doesn’t seem to be ours. Avik Roy writes for Forbes:

Democrats are trumpeting preliminary estimates indicating that premiums on Obamacare’s insurance exchanges will rise modestly, on average, in 2015. These early indications have led to a peculiar type of crowing from Obamacare supporters: “See, Obamacare isn’t collapsing!” And it’s true: Obamacare isn’t collapsing. But in the real world, we don’t measure the success of the “Affordable Care Act” by its failure to collapse. We measure it by looking at the underlying affordability of American health care. And there can be no doubt that health care today is more costly than it would have been without Obamacare.

Roy’s evidence is a recent analysis of preliminary insurance rate filings conducted by McKinsey. They found that the lowest-price Silver plan increased by an average of 8 percent, which is higher than the 6.8 percent increase in medical inflation. In other words, Obamacare isn’t bending the cost curve towards affordability, if anything it’s making health care more expensive than it otherwise would have been.

Sadly, soaring insurance prices aren’t the only way to show that Obamacare continues to be a disaster. Here’s a rundown of some of the latest issues with the law that we’ve come across:

University of Chicago economist Casey Mulligan writes in the Wall Street Journal that Obamacare’s long-term impact on the economy is “3% less weekly employment, 3% fewer aggregate work hours, 2% less GDP and 2% less labor income.” Although the percentages may not seem large that translates into hundreds of billions of dollars in lost productivity and wage growth.

The Morning Consult reported that nearly 50,000 people in seven states will lose their current health coverage in the coming weeks. The brunt of cancellations will actually come next year when non-Obamacare compliant insurance plans will become illegal (again).

The Washington Post reported that the Department of Health and Human Services is illegally hiding health insurers’ rate increases from the public. It’s becoming clear that the White House doesn’t want voters to know the true impact of the law before Election Day.

POLITICO reports that groups responsible for enrolling people in Obamacare are deciding to downplay talk about the individual mandate which jumps from $95 or 1 percent of a person’s income, whichever is greater, to $325 or 2 percent of a person’s income this year.

Bloomberg reports that Obamacare’s startup costs have already “shattered” the price tag given by the Congressional Budget Office and “are far greater than anything publicly discussed.”

Ed Rogers sums it up well for the Washington Post:

The notion that Obamacare is working as advertised, that it is working as intended and that it is working to better the lives of most Americans is absolutely false. The assertion that Obamacare is solving a problem bigger than the problems it has created is the big lie of the 2014 campaign.

So while the president and Democrats try and sell voters on the idea that the law is “working” ask yourselves this: Why did the Obama Administration delay the start of open enrollment from October 1 until November 15? Could it have something to do with the November 4 election? And if so, doesn’t that tell us everything we need to know about how well this law is working?