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“I’m pretty sure that, you know, in 10 years they’re not going to call it Obamacare anymore,” President Barack Obama told a cheering crowd at Rhode Island College in Providence. “Republicans will be like, ‘Ah, I was for that! Yeah!’”
Oh, I dunno. It’s been 80 years since we got Social Security, and Republicans still want to do away with that.
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I predict President Obama’s prediction is correct.
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They’ve already called it Romneycare.
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But you’ll notice, they never want to do that at election time or when they’re running for office. Only after they get into office do they rail against it, but no where near the time they have to appeal to voters. Its a dead loser for them when they do.
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True enough.
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In a decade Republicans will be arguing that they always supported expanding access to health insurance while Democrats are the real enemies to affordable healthcare because back in the 19th century Democrats were in favor of using leeches to cure disease.
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or when they visit mom at Thanksgiving.
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Those were the good old days when real men got polio and TB.
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The American landscape ten years from now may look a lot like The Great Depression meets the Dust Bowl, if conservatives gain the Senate and the White House from the next couple of elections.
So, liberals, vote! And urge your liberal friends and family to vote too!
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If Obama called it the Ronald Reagan Affordable Care Act he could have saved himself a whole lot of trouble.
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Actually, although they have wished to do away with both Social Security and Medicare since the inception of both, they do not dare touch it, and that is why it is considered the third rail of politics, and it has been said that if any party dare to get rid of either program, that party will soon cease to exist.
They use the trick of saying they want to “Save” those programs, or “strengthen” those programs, while reading the fine print in those plans shows they want to privatize both, which in effect would kill both programs. Obamacare will come to be as popular as both of those other programs, and the right knows this, which is why they fought so hard to stop it from ever coming into existence to begin with.
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Didn’t Obama say that they would stop calling it Obamacare after the 2012 election, when the “fever of opposition and deadlock” would end? Then after it was fully implemented? So, I dunno. So, here’s a suggestion for the Pres, just in case anyone at Casa Blanca is reading TPM and has balls: Assuming that the Republicans take the Senate, the President ought to urge Republicans to put their votes where their mouths are and put a clean total Obamacare repeal on both the House and Senate floor. He should then ask Democratic Senators not to fillbuster the repeal and to say that he would not veto the legislation. Awaiting that Congressional action, he should then do what he should have been doing since the beginning-- take his case across the country and spell out what Obamacare has done financially for the state and what it would mean to repeal it. Let the chips fall where they may. Let the health insurers explain to the Republicans who have gotten their money what it would mean to them. The fight would electrify the country and give Barack a chance at a clean start. High stakes? You bet. No high stakes, no victories.
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When the GOTP does their inevitable one eighty on the ACA they will start calling it Rmoneycare.
And real men went bankrupt because they were sick and their families lost everything cause that’s the 'merican way.
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been saying this for quite a while…they’ll find a pivot point and evolve
RomneyCare, Affordable Care Act, The Health Freedom Act, etc…
Will probably be called O-care. Obamacare has too many syllables (not to mention it’s offensive).
Wait - they’re trying to get rid of Roosevelt Security and JohnsonCare? Why, people would be nuts to vote for anyone who wanted to do that.
that’s what many of us have been saying, but I think Obama is off by five years or so. By the midpoint of Hillary’s two terms, the GOP and Fixed News will loudly whine that it’s unfair and biased to call it Obamacare because it’s so similar to Romneycare and what the Heritage Foundation originally proposed in the 90s. The hysterics over the last few years will be completely flushed down the memory hole. The fact that GOP propagandists tagged it as Obamacare will be completely forgotten, just as the Teabuggers have completely forgotten that it was they themselves who called themselves ‘teabaggers’ in the first place.
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Or just “Reagan.” No Republican could vote against it.