“Obamacare” has long been the sole term by which Republicans refer to health care reform — an attempt to brand the legislation as a big, amorphous piece of bureaucracy that can’t be untethered from its namesake, President Obama. The theory went that as long as the GOP could keep associating the law with the man responsible for it, President Obama, the more they’d be able to wield it as a weapon against Democrats at the ballot box.
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