WSJ leans into the "rate shock" narrative for Obamacare

[Updated 7/13, per "Blows to Obama's Health-Care Law Pile Up"...]

The WSJ's Louise Radnofsky is an experienced healthcare reporter, and her front-page story today about pending "rate shock" for healthy singles when the ACA takes effect is factually accurate. Since the focus is on the risk that the healthy uninsured will stay out of the ACA's healthcare exchanges, it's arguably fair to focus on the subset -- a minority of those who don't get insurance from an employer or the government -- whose premiums may go up. But nonetheless I find the emphasis and framing misleading in some particulars (e.g., the online home page teaser, "Insurance Rates Could Soar Under New Law"). .

The lede goes for maximum shock effect, setting reader perceptions before multiple caveats qualify the picture: