It's been mentioned here that some people don't know that ACA and Obamacare are the same thing.

[raccoon]

And I suspect a lot of uninformed people figured that "Obamacare" was associated with Obama--and therefore, something bad.

Whereas, ACA has a different ring to it. From the name, it doesn't create a mental association with a particular party.

Wonder if whoever started calling it "Obamacare" had an ulterior motive?

[BlueJac]

1. Duh!

Hatters hate!

[Phentex]

2. Initially they did...

and I think it definitely was meant to have a negative connotation. But then after it became a good thing for many people, the term Obamacare was embraced as a good thing.

[doc03]

5. Trump's true believers still call it Obamacare nt

[logosoco]

3. Even if they get another program going,

which doesn't look like is going to happen, I will always call it Obama-care! He is the one who got the door open. We could be somewhere much better with health CARE in this country if it was not for the obstructing repubs.

[ismnotwasm]

4. In the nursingfield

-we almost always referred to it as the ACA, although we might clarify with "Obamacare" --at least at education days and conferences I went to.

[Ms. Toad]

6. Obamacare was created as a perjorative - and IMO, democrats embracing it is part of the reason

believe it is something separate.

When those who want to dismantle "Obamacare" interact with the government or the medical institutions, it is referred to as ACA. People who are receiving the medical care they need recognize its value, and truly believe that Obamacare bit the dust one of the many times Republicans repealed it - and that the ACA is something different. It has to be because that medical care they got pretty darn cheaply was a good thing.

Embracing the perjorative is one of several mistakes the Obama administration made in rolling out the ACA
* Not getting in front of the curve when people started trashing it
* Allowing full implementation to take so long (as initially adopted by Congress)
* Delaying the merged cap for pharmacy & medical (that one personally cost me a few thousand dollars, and it meant that we have not been living in the fully implemented system long enough for the rage to have settled into recognition of value)

So Obamacare was intended to doom it, and it largely has. While I'm eternally grateful that I've had 3 years of mnimal worry about medical care (for 20 of the 23 years my daughter has had two enormously costly chronic illnesses), I'm pissed that the opportunity to make it permanent and to ensure people knew its value before the election of Trumpm was squandered. Because I'm now back to worrying whether even spending down my entire retirement savings will be sufficient to keep my daughter alive.

[dawg]

7. I almost always refer to it as the ACA when talking with clients.

But if they repeal it, and cobble together some horribly insufficient replacement, I am sure to refer to that as "Trumpcare" at every opportunity.