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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDo our team a favor - stop calling it 'Obamacare'
That's the boogieman that the tea party has created to scare people. It's the Affordable Care Act or ACA.
Stop playing into the boogieman mentality and start showing people that what has happened is making healthcare available to everyone including the poor AND those with preexisting conditions.
Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)I hope the plan is a major success and that the name Obamacare sticks in the craw of Republicans for eons to come.
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)It is accepted parlance now
Comrade_McKenzie
(2,526 posts)morningfog
(18,115 posts)pnwmom
(109,001 posts)at the official Barack Obama store.
https://store.barackobama.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=obamacare
Obama turned this around aready...he said he doesn't mind it being called Obamacare because he does care.
Lugnut
(9,791 posts)Now it seems that his campaign has as well.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Lugnut
(9,791 posts)No harm, no foul, LynneSin.
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)Own it and make it a good thing.
Bandit
(21,475 posts)It could also be called Democare.. Obama and the democrats do care and it should be something we hold Proud... Maybe Obamacares, is that better?
lame54
(35,328 posts)Life Long Dem
(8,582 posts)Brought to you by Obama - thus Obamacare.
Maeve
(42,297 posts)Approved by the President. While I understand your point, he's decided to own it.
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)I know several people who will benefit from it, and I don't want them to forget where it came from.
gort
(687 posts)He said recently that he knows the republicans call it Obamacare as an insult, but he's proud of the term because to him it means "Obama cares" which is why he pushed for the ACA in the first place.
Obama cares. Mitch McConnell does not care.
TheKentuckian
(25,029 posts)Gingrichcare is what I usually go with for short but Robmecare or even Obamacare works better than Healthcare or anything about affordable.
Quantess
(27,630 posts)to remind voters that Romney came up with the same idea.
patrice
(47,992 posts)Obviously, any and all members at whatever level of a taxonomic order are identical with all other members at the same level.
Obviously, I'm looking at a blue vase, so all phenomena with the trait "blue" are identical in color to this vase.
Obviously, I must speak Spanish to my neighbor, so all people with brown skin require that I speak Spanish.
I could go on, but perhaps you get the idea.
Bake
(21,977 posts)See all of the above posts ...
Love ya!
Bake
spanone
(135,898 posts)pnwmom
(109,001 posts)that say "I like Obamacare."
https://store.barackobama.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=obamacare
Raine
(30,541 posts)bluedigger
(17,087 posts)It will be his "legacy".
DearAbby
(12,461 posts)maybe they will vote for him?
I like the idea of this having his name, forever. People having their lives saved...I want "THANKS TO OBAMACARE" to roll off their tongues.
veganlush
(2,049 posts)use by us just takes the negativity right out of it. But what really needs to happen is what Rachel pointed out-Dems everywhere need to be singing it's praises and selling it aggressively.
lastlib
(23,320 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)It's a great law and we should be proud to have Obama's name attached to it.
handmade34
(22,758 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)go as far as to type that out each and every time I refer to it.
Patient Protection is going to put HC-insurance-user/market pressure on those insurance exchanges' rates of coverage and services covered.
I'm trying to get people to LOOK at this relative to the pressure created by the Mandate + the MLR on the premium dollar, so sorry if I bore you with repetition, but here is the PATIENT PROTECTION piece: http://www.pcori.org/
patrice
(47,992 posts)for them.
I think people are smart enough to handle two labels: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - and - Obamacare.
Siwsan
(26,305 posts)Because I whole heartedly believe he does.
Kahuna
(27,312 posts)the president likes it too.