Who First Coined the Term "ObamaCare"?

[weston]

Yesterday on FoxNews I heard Geraldine Ferraro say that whoever coined the term ObamaCare was brilliant. She said it took all the negatives of the plan and tied it around Obama's neck. So I know my fellow Freepers will have the answer to the question "Who first coined the word "ObamaCare". Also, since the people clearly regard ObamaCare as negative, how are conservatives going to get us back to FreeMarket Health Care?

[nutmeg]

ping

[Yo-Yo]

But who came up with Hillarycare?

Again, LexisNexis shows that the earliest use of the term "Hillarycare" in the news was by Jeff Millar in the Huston Chronicle, dated April 4th, 1993 in an article titled Temporary fix could be our lasting predicament.

Here is the quote, and to give it context, he is imagining a future health care scenario experienced by a fictional "Norman:"

"So Norman was about to receive his first exposure to the National Health Reform Act of 1994: HillaryCare, as it was popularly known, in recognition of its author, Hillary Rodham Clinton, who'd headed the commission that had cobbled it together."

[weston]

How great is that! Progressive so sure that the Healthcare Bill would be America’s salvation he wanted to make sure Obama got the credit. LOL. (Good find)

[Opinionated Blowhard]

“ObamaCare” isn’t really unique. We had RomneyCare and ClintonCare before. Any big program gets tagged with the politician’s name.

[Vermont Lt]

I don’t think you are going to find a single point of reference on this one. It was kind of a natural evolution from HillaryCare, and then RomneyCare, so ObamaCare was simply a natural progression.

Its like when they tag every scandal with “gate”. I asked my 17 year old daughter and her friends if they had any idea where that came from. They did not have a clue, but they understood exactly the intent of the meaning.

Sometimes things “just are.”

[frithguild]

I did.

[Lorianne]

It may be brilliant, but it’s not accurate.
It’s really PelosiCare

Obama had very little to do with that bill from start to finish. A good portion of it was already drafted before he was even elected.

More and more I think Obama is a spectator, not a player.

[Lorianne]

Precisely.

I have been trying to explain that very thing for over 2 years now (though you said in more concisely).

We haven’t had a ‘free market’ in health insurance from almost it’s inception.

And State monopolized health insurance killed free market health CARE.

[EasySt]

"Obamacare. Obamacide - which is what the dems have committed in this election. Obamatons. Obamacrats. Obamathons (what Obama keeps doing, perpetual campaigning)."

Let's not forget Obamunists, Obamunism and Obamanation... ;-)

[GailA]

In Tennessee we have TennCare.........same POS.

[Obadiah]

Yep.