I referred to Obamacare one day at work and was immediately pounced upon by two Democrats (no joke, they simultaneously jumped up and stomped over to me) for using that offensive term and was instructed to refer to it as ACA. I was shocked and confused. If it’s offensive, wouldn’t that mean you were embarrassed by it? The term “Reagonomics” is regularly thrown around by both sides without Republicans pouncing on it as offensive, because Republicans believe it is/was good economic policy.
Crediting Obama with even 5% of the law is inaccurate. The law is an essentially Republican idea on the face of it, presented as an alternative to Hillarycare in the 90’s.
It’s the watered-down, for-profit compromise plan which Republicans presented and Democrats agreed was better than nothing.
It was passed by Democrats, without Republican votes.
Obama had little actual input on the law.
And while Republicans bash their own previous positions on issues, as they slide further to the right, Americans will swallow the weaker, watered-down version of what they really need, which is single payer, which is much much much more efficient than this plan.
Again, this is better than nothing.
But the Republicans will continue to bash all progress, even when it comes from their own playbooks, and Democrats will continue to be the only party which makes anything positive actually happen, although they’re still too spineless and milquetoast to do the right thing from the beginning.
I’ve been calling it Obamacare since shortly after it passed. I like the law (as far as it goes) and only use “ACA” when I’m in a setting that requires more formality.
I’m working on implementing most parts of the ACA at my organization, and we refer to it as such within our group in meetings, but when we bring it up to people not in the group we’ll say, “we are working on implemeting part abc of the ACA, (obamacare)”. We hate saying obamacare because it still makes it seem like it’s politicized. The term obamacare and ACA will more then likely quickly disappear as someone previosuly mentioned after it’s fully implemented since it’s not really creating a new huge government organization to support it.
I agree, but not for that reason. I think it rolls off the tongue too well and doesn’t sound like the name of a party. It just sounds like “democratic,” the common* adjective. With Democrat or Republican, there’s a change in meter that makes it sound like a proper* adjective.
You don’t get to decide what the actual name of the party is, no. You could try to convince them to change it to Democrat Party from Democratic Party, but that seems like a lot of effort for no real purpose. A person is a Democrat, the party is the Democratic Party.
Who said I’m deciding what the actual name of the party is? I just said I prefer to say it that way (which I actually don’t ever do, I use Democrats and Republicans almost exclusively).
I just get tired of the, “You can’t call it The Democrat Party, that’s offensive!” line. For one, it’s not offensive to every Democrat (I’m never the lone voice of support for the name) and for two, it gives it a nice symmetry with The Republican Party, so it’s not even like it’s all that wacky of an idea!
Quick quiz: Democrat, democratic, tea party, teabagger…which one involves dangling your balls in the face of another? Bonus essay question: Do your best to equate the other three as an insult with the one that means dangling your balls in the face of another.
Didn’t he decide to take ownership of it during the campaign? People like the idea of universal healthcare. The Republicans calling it Obamacare turned out to be good press for Obama. The Republicans failed to realize that the majority of the people don’t consider the term ‘Obama’ to be an insult.
Huh. It worked with Hillarycare, didn’t it? Maybe it failed because the mainstream is finally bad enough off when it comes to healthcare that there was nothing the Republicans could call it to make ‘you can get health insurance’ automatically seem like a dumb-o-cRAT lie-beral scheme.
If the majority no longer consider ‘Hillary’ to be an insult, it’s been a recent change. This time they miscalculated. And yes, timing makes a difference. Obamacare is not substantially better than Hillarycare, but people realize now that they need something and the Republicans were offering the chickens for healthcare plan.