I love how some folks have so quickly adopted the name "Obama Care".
Originally Posted by nuglet
Meaning what precisely? I think the PPACA has some upsides and some downsides, and that only time will tell the long-term effects on our ailing healthcare system. But I still call it Obamacare. Many national-stage politicians have tried to move the US towards nationalized insurance and/or healthcare in one form or another, and Kennedy wasn't the first. The President made it his central policy plank. It exists because he got behind it and pushed. For good or ill, he should own that accomplishment name and all. So I really couldn't give a rat's ass what sugar-coated name the Senate put on HR 3590 while making the sausage. IMO, it's superficial to bridle at what people call it, particularly since most of the law's supporters also call it Obamacare. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. A name is what people call something. Obamacare is
a name of said law. And since, in spite of what reactionaries want to believe, we don't live in a totalitarian state, no one is obliged to use the "official" name.