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Obamacare Obama-care Obama Care
English
Alternative forms
en Obamacare Obama-care Obama Care
Etymology
en Obama healthcare Barack Obama or en Medicare and perhaps influenced by earlier en HillaryCare.
Pronunciation
en /oʊˈbɑ məˌkɛəɹ/
en ɛə(ɹ)
Proper noun
en US neologism originally pejorative Any of various healthcare plans seen as associated with Barack Obama before or during his tenure as U.S. President; especially, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3590: a healthcare reform plan that was passed in 2010 and signed into law by him.
en July 5, 2007 Edwardscare: A Trojan Horse, in Slate Magazine Timothy Noah For some reason, Obama's senior economist, Austan Goolsbee, chooses not to believe this about Obamacare, possibly because he figures the private-but-regulated health-care plans in Obama's National Health Insurance Exchange would be more generous than Obama's public health-care plan. http://www.slate.com/id/2169764/pagenum/2 https://web.archive.org/web/20110220054920/http://www.slate.com/id/2169764/pagenum/2 20 February 2011
2007 September 26, Rudy Giuliani, address to the New Jersey Republican Party (about 12 minutes 30 seconds in):
This is a trick. This is a trick that's going on here. This idea that, that whether it's HillaryCare, or ObamaCare, or EdwardsCare, that idea that it's not socialized medicine is a trick. It's a massive growth in government control of medicine.
en 2010 Richard McKenzie Neal We the People: A Christian Nation 161 Those who designed ObamaCare were willing to sacrifice marriage for the sake of seeming to be “progressive and equitable,” even though social science research reveals a clear link between single motherhood and poverty.
en 2011 Tony Maglione Obamacare: A Doctor's Guide to Saving Healthcare This book will tell you what is right and wrong with Obamacare and will offer solutions to improve healthcare in our country so that it remains of high quality and sustainable financially in the future for all Americans.
en 2011 Kevin Williamson The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism 237 Of course ObamaCare is socialism. It has been designed along explicitly socialist lines
en Jun 16, 2015 w:Donald Trump Transcript: Donald Trump announces his presidential candidacy CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-donald-trump-announces-his-presidential-candidacy/ We have a disaster called the big lie: Obamacare. Obamacare. https://web.archive.org/web/20261004033632/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-donald-trump-announces-his-presidential-candidacy/ 4 October 2026
en Mar 12 2017 w:John Oliver w:Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 4 5 American Health Care Act HBO Tonight, for our main story, we’re going to look at Obamacare. Basically, the opposite of this photo which is more “Obama don’t give a fuck”!
Synonyms
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act H.R. 3590
Affordable Care Act / en ACA
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act / en PPACA
Related terms
en Obamamania
en Obamunism
en Obamanomics
See also
en Hillarycare
en Romneycare
en Trumpcare
en Bidencare
Further reading
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
en eponyms
en Barack Obama