We recently reported that the Affordable Care Act — also known as Obamacare — has just posted some stunning successes in California, where more than two-thirds of those who did not have insurance before the passage of the ACA now have it, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey that was released this week. But in other states, Obamacare is landing with a flop. Why?

An editorial from the Chicago Sun-Times lays the blame at the doorstep of conservatives: specifically, those in charge of states that refuse to work with the ACA and instead have attempted to stand in the way of it, or even stop it altogether.

Obamacare has had its share of problems since passage in recent years, such as a website that crashed making it difficult for people to sign up as well as legal challenges from conservatives, who have only renewed their calls to bring down the ACA now that they have taken control both the House and Senate, and are hoping to grab hold of the White House next year.

But what the recent numbers in California show, the editorial claims, is that Obamacare will work when states cooperate with it. The Kaiser Family Foundation said that California stands out as a “laboratory” for the three-year-old law because it has the largest number of uninsured, it has a great deal of racial and ethnic diversity, and the state government has fully cooperated with rolling out ACA.

It certainly gives ammo to those on the left who support Obamacare that the law can work if conservatives give it a chance. However, that seems entirely unlikely to happen, and the law may not last at all if Republicans get their way.