Obamacare

[oh-bah-muh-kair]

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noun

a federal law providing for a fundamental reform of the U.S. healthcare and health insurance system, signed by President Barack Obama in 2010: formally called Affordable Care Act or Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Obamacare¹

(Barack) Obama + (health)care

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I don't think I can give you the answer right now, but I think with Obamacare, of the Affordable Care Act, we have to amend it, not end it.

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They were quite successful in 2018 pushing back on GOP efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, if you prefer.

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Meanwhile, the Christian right wing of the party, while happy to pass huge cuts to Medicaid and Obamacare, is largely leaving untouched Social Security or Medicare, which their working-class and aging base depends on.

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Congressional Republicans want to preserve tax cuts for the rich by cutting Medicaid, Medicare, Obamacare, green energy and much more.

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“Obama didn’t design the Obamacare website that crashed, but he set up the system that produced it,” she noted.

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