Posted on 12/27/2010 6:56:45 PM PST by Libloather
Does the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act need title reform?
By Marilyn Serafini
Kaiser Health News
Sunday, December 26, 2010; 9:46 PM
Puh-pack-uh? Is that some kind of llama?
In fact, it's the ungainly acronym of the new health-care law - PPACA, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Many people who support the law, or are neutral toward it, call it "puh-pack-uh" or "pee-pack-uh." Others call it the Affordable Care Act or plain old health-care reform.
But those less-than-inspiring monikers aren't much help to Democrats trying to convince the public that "Obamacare" - the Republicans' pejorative name for the law - is worth keeping, said Robert J. Blendon, a professor of health policy and political analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Democratic pollsters concede that there is a problem.
"We do need a common narrative that includes a name," said Celinda Lake, president of Lake Research Partners. "When Obama's job performance improves, it will be fine to call it Obamacare. Now, it is polarizing."
**SNIP**
These days, White House officials generally refer to the new health-care law as the Affordable Care Act. Blendon says that doesn't help Democrats much because "people don't believe the law will make health care more affordable."
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I offer “Death Panel Express” for your enlightened consideration.
Democratcare.
It needs total and complete annihilation. Dead, dead, dead, beyond resuscitation.
Put it in a lead-lined casket, and bury it beneath the nuclear waste somewhere.
Call it what you want, as long as we can call it history.
Was that clear enough for even Pelosi, Reid, and Frank to understand??
How about Clintonian Affordable Care Act or Ca-Ca which is what it is.
The title “Obamacare” ain’t goin’ anywhere. It’s too catchy, and it conveys the truth. This was Obama’s big deal, and as its effects cause pain, the public’s disapproval rises and the Supreme Court guts its key provision, it is fitting that it bear his name.
You can rename an outhouse and call it an air freshener, but it doesn’t change the contents.
Crapcare?
PULCA
Peon’s Unaffordable Lack of Care Act
democrats->libs->progressives....
same shat different day...
NO change, as Obamacare needs to sound loud and clear in 2012, as the worst liberal boondoggle of the millenium.
Nobody is calling it the Affordable Care Act. They are calling it everything else but not that. Personally I’m going with Deathcare.
You can put a monkey in a silk suit, but it will still be just another monkey.
I call it TerriSchiavoCare.
I call it TerriSchiavoCare.
“When Obama’s job performance improves. . .” it will be a cold day in hell!
Republicans need to cancel all Washington Post subscriptions that go to government offices. That single act will bury this Marxist rag forever.
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