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No, the law is called the "Affordable Care Act" precisely to avoid making it partisan with an active politician's name getting free advertising on the side. If
by Terr_ 1y ago
No, the law is called the "Affordable Care Act" precisely to avoid making it partisan with an active politician's name getting free advertising on the side.
If was Republicans who spent years promoting that unofficial nickname of "Obamacare" as an insult!
> [2011] Arguing that Obamacare is at this point a derogatory term, House Democrats want to ban the term from mailers sent from Congressional offices [saying it] violates the rules against sending mailers for "personal, partisan, or political reasons."
You are literally blaming the victim for something the other side did.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2011/10/house-democrats-want-republicans-stop-saying-obamacare/336283/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2011/10/house-democrats...
- johnnyanmac 1y ago>It was Republicans who spent years promoting that unofficial nickname of "Obamacare" as an insult! Thank you. It was picked up by many of the public as a popular term for a popular president. But I don't think I've ever heard any Democrat in policy call it Obamacare. Closest we get is maybe "Healthcare reform under Obama". The original purpose of the term was always to stroke the flames of people who people who hated Obama. So that they associate Obama with "giving handouts".