I want to know who started calling Obamacare the ACA now???

[a kennedy]

Really, I've never heard it called the ACA AT ALL until just within the last week or so......who has decided to call it the ACA now instead of the Obamacare that they've been calling it for the last 8 years??? Funny how folk think the ACA is wonderful now.

[JayhawkSD]

1. Its official name is the ACA

So Congress started it by naming the bill the "Affordable Care Act" and it has been called that since it passed.

I have heard the use of that name a great deal more often than I have "Obamacare" for eight years, and "folk" have been thinking for eight full years that the program is wonderful.

[a kennedy]

4. I KNOW it's the official name, but I'm hearing it more then previously,

it's as if it WAS a slam to call it Obamacare. I'm just saying I'm hearing it called the ACA more now. Or I might be more sensitive to hearing it called the ACA. Or I could be nuts.....

[mythology]

2. I try to always call it ACA

Partially because that's the official name, partially because I work for an insurance company and we use ACA for the work we do on compliance, and partially because Republicans worked so hard to use Obamacare as a pejorative.

[Wounded Bear]

3. I use both...

and I'm never sure of the logic behind which one I use in a given post.