Discussion for article #224007
I couldnāt disagree more. This was the GOPās intent but it is slowly backfiring. The day will come when the term āObama Careā will be held in similar esteem as the Marshall Plan
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That might be the understatement of the year. According to Michele Bachmann Obama-care will kill you.
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I have a really difficult time imagining the incredibly ill-informed person who thinks that the Affordable Care Act isnāt Obamacare.
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I think Beshear is simply wrong.
The word āObamacareā was MEANT to be a critical demon but NOW it has turned into one of the greatest gifts the GOP has guven us. Just by its use it shows that one party cares about getting affordable health care for people while the other doesnāt. Cause freedom.
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The brainwashing of Faux news and the Republican sound machine is far more scarier than the ACA. Fortunately many people have been helped, but the ugly name calling is still rampant.
Proof that a segment of the populationās reason for opposing the Presidentās move is because they HATE the president and not because of his policies.
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Really?
Go take a walk through a mall. Or better (worse) yet, a Wal Mart.
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No, heās right, at this moment in history. Obamacare was intended as a derisive term. The GOP-compliant MSM went ahead and adopted the GOP language, as they always do, so Obama just went ahead and owned it. It still is derisive to call it Obamacare. If it succeeds, it will lose that distinction, but donāt ever fool yourself that branding it Obamacare wasnāt an attempt by the vile racist GOP fucks to give a negative anchor to something full of things that people, even stupid teabagger fucks, would otherwise embrace.
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Actually, itās easy to imagine.Theyāre called Fox News viewers.
and listening to crazy eyes micheal backman will kill brain cells
Umā¦ was Beshear asleep for the late 2000s? The term āObamacareā was wholly created as a partisan insult, an attempt to remind people of the failed āHilarycareā plan. Obama decided to embrace the term to strip it of some of its negative power, an effort thatās worked. Beshear is right that using the term āACAā or āaffordable, comprehensive, fair healthcareā goes over better with people, but heās missing the history of the term.
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The right-wingnut meme machine works great for things like global warming, something where the immediate impact is hard to understand. Evolution, similarly ā while anybody with half a brain could see that itās real, itās not immediately apparent to people who want to not-believe.
On the other hand, Obamacare affects everybody immediately, deeply, and pervasively. While it was still a theoretical concept, the GOP could make up anything that they wanted; but now that itās a reality that affects people, they can no longer do that without looking like idiots. Itās going to take some of them longer than others, but the right-wing talking point writers will get everybody together pretty soon. After all, you donāt want these people thinking, making their own decisions, right?
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He was explaining why KYians embraced healthcare reform despite being such a conservative state. Itās largely because early on Beshear began referring to anything involving the ACA as Kynect, the name of KYās exchange. He also promoted it unabashedly and made it his mission to get the word out. For KY, Obamacare has been a Democratic dream come true.
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This is the fault of US news media which doesnāt educate the public because the mediaās purpose is to make profit for shareholders and not to educate the public.
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I canāt wait until conservatives start complaining about the term āObamacareā, because it unfairly gives all the credit to Democratsā¦
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You need to get out and meet more people.