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  • Hoyer: Maybe calling it "Obamacare" wasn't such a good idea

    12/03/2013 2:16:36 PM PST · by Tailgunner Joe · 77 replies
    mcclatchydc.com ^ | December 3, 2013 | William Douglas
    Maybe it wasn't such a hot idea after all for President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats to embrace the "Obamacare" moniker for the Affordable Care Act, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer mused Tuesday. "Yeah, I wish I hadn't called it 'Obamacare' before, because that has politicized it and has been used by Republicans as a pejorative term," Hoyer, D-Md., said after a reporter noted Tuesday that he repeatedly called the health care law by its formal name. .... "I don't know that we need to re-brand the Affordable Care Act," he said. "We do need to say it is the...