You think the person with 27,254 comment karma on a 2,304 day old account, with identifying info in his profile is posting anti-ACA comments as part of some conspiracy?

I agree with your observation, but in this case, it makes sense. As someone with a permanent preexisting condition, I am the only person I know that benefited from the ACA. Huge portions of my family and friends were impacted very negatively. Many of them had their rates go up 30-40% and ended up with worse insurance plans.

I am a bit bothered that the NYTimes chose to ignore a wealth of data for a major current societal problem, and just cherry-pick some category that ended up "better" to make a map and article.

My wife and I want to start an astroturfing tracker website. Perhaps we have a few candidates? A ShowHN someday?