ObamaCare

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1. USneologismAny 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.

   We have a disaster called the big lie: Obamacare. Obamacare.

   2015 June 16, Donald Trump, “Transcript: Donald Trump announces his presidential candidacy”, in CBS News

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   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.

   2007 July 5, Timothy Noah, “Edwardscare: A Trojan Horse, in Slate Magazine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)

   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.

   2007 September 26, Rudy Giuliani, address to the New Jersey Republican Party (about 12 minutes 30 seconds in)

   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.

   2010, Richard McKenzie Neal, We the People: A Christian Nation, page 161

   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.

   2011, Tony Maglione, Obamacare: A Doctor's Guide to Saving Healthcare

   Of course ObamaCare is socialism. It has been designed along explicitly socialist lines[…]

   2011, Kevin Williamson, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism, page 237

   Synonyms: Affordable Care Act, ACA, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, PPACA

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   Compared to this litany, the 2010s look a little uneventful, don’t they? Even if you declare Obamacare a big [expletive] deal and grant Trump’s election world-historical significance, even if you bring in European dramas like Brexit and the Syrian refugee crisis, even if you pretend self-driving cars are really happening (just as soon as they learn to drive in rain …) … even then, the last decade’s disruptions don’t quite measure up.

   2019 December 28, Ross Douthat, “The Decade of Disillusionment”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2020