It was probably someone on FR.
I’m sure one of the media’s political entertainers will claim it as theirs.
Back to Free Market Health Care? We never had it. Health Care is provided by a state-granted guild monopoly—physicians, who (for valid reasons) are licensed and regulated by the state, and (indefensibly) fight against any possible competition—nurse-midwives, prescription privileges for psychologists, chiropractors (even of the honest sort who only claim to fix ailment known to be of musculo-skeletal origin, . . .)—through the use of state power. Most advanced pharmaceuticals are sold under state-granted monopolies (patents), even if they are naturally occurring substances. Health insurance has always been heavily state-regulated, and can’t be sold across state-lines.
i think it was Laz...
Geraldine is easily impressed. Remember Dukaka? Anybody on this board could have said it first.
“Death Panels” was equally brilliant and we all know who coined that term.
That said, a LexisNexis search of all news media shows that Wayne Madsen of the Progressive Online Journal was the first to use the phrase "Obamacare" in a pro-Obamacare article titled Obama's well-crafted plan offers Americans full coverage without emptying the Treasury, on April 4, 2008 in the Salt Lake Tribune.
Here's the money quote:
"Obama's national health insurance program, let's call it "ObamaCare," provides Americans with affordable premiums, co-pays and deductibles."
If there is an earlier reference to the term, it doesn't show up on the LexisNexis search.
A lot of folks on various forums were using the term “Deathcare” but that never caught on.
But it might once Obamacare kicks in and the killin’ starts.
I saw ferraro yesterday. I have always disagreed with her on almost everything, but i still enjoyed her sense of humor and listening to her. Yesterday however, she did not look like she was in good health. Don’t know what is wrong, but she looked pretty weak and pale.
Some terms are so obvious they are adopted by consensus.
RINO is a freeper’ism...
I prefer the more accurate, “Mengelecare”.
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“ObamaCare” isn’t really unique. We had RomneyCare and ClintonCare before. Any big program gets tagged with the politician’s name.
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.”
I did.
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.