Posted on 12/01/2013 7:29:09 PM PST by South40
House Democrats are blocking their Republican colleagues from using Obamacare in letters mailed on the taxpayer's dime to voters, but who made up the term in the first place? Lots of people are asking this question, getting answers like "Certainly a republican, potentially Glenn Beck" and "I am about 80% sure it was Rush Limbaugh" and "Hillary Clinton's campaign coined Obamacare." Iowa Rep. Steve King claimed President Obama himself made it up. Free Republic posters want to claim credit. Lots of liberals suspect an insidious plot by Fox News. But the answer appears to be: a lobbyist.
(Excerpt) Read more at thewire.com ...
Well, just in terms of the ***care idea:
In 2003, then California State Senator Sheila Kuehl introduced a single payer health insurance bill. Kuehl is a former actress who once played a character named Zelda on the old Dobie Gillis Show. Her bill was promptly dubbed “Zeldacare” by a certain blogger/Freeper. The name got a fair amount of circulation.
“Free Republic posters want to claim credit.”
I actually read about it first on FR. Thinking we should get an entry on wiki but it won’t get past the obama ass-kissing moderators there.
ObamaDontCare?
Obamascarce?
CostlyCare?
Cloward-PrivenCare?
When people find out what level of service they are getting for their money, they’ll call it.... ZEROCARE.
No, really. It was me.
I don’t think anything tops “earned income tax credit” as not only deceptive but a 100% lie!
When you're the President, it's your tar baby, even if you abdicated its birth to Pelosi and Reid and their libtard staffs. And the more you try to fix it, the worse it will get!
That's down right racist!.....and accurate. I like it, "tar baby care".
i would accept changing it to Obamacide. i’m flexible.
Obamacare = weasel word for “medical protection racket”
He told Romney in one of the debates that he liked it being called obamacare.
RatCare
This raises an excellent point, as there just might not be much quality "care" in "obamacare".
So, I'm with those who want to change the moniker to something that reflects the originator, but it still based on realistic exceptions of just what the AFA has in store for everyone reading this.
What do you think of...
The Barack Obama Confiscation and Forced Collectivization of Health Plans (Excluding Congress, Congressional Staffers, Labor Unions, and Large Donors) and Ancillary Laws to be Made Up Whenever; All while Promising Health Care Cost Savings (Ha Ha) And that you can Keep Your Doctor (Ha Ha Ha)?
Hmmm, probably not long enough.
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Interesting comment at link...Romney was actually one of the first to call it 0bama-care...way back in 2007. Ironic. Here's a link to that...
"I've watched with interest these last few days, watching the Democrats come out with their plans on health care. They don't understand," Romney said. "The path of Europe is not the way to go. Socialized medicine, Hillary-care, Obama-care, they don't get it.
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2007/05/31/4436813-oh-eight-r
How about Progressive Care?
Isolate the target
Personalize it
Freeze it...
I think you should put a ' n ' Between the o and the C. That will be most descriptive for those who find themselves facing one of the faceless "Death Panels".
Yep.
We burn witches...
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