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Obamacare
[ oh-bah-muh-kair ]
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.
Word History and Origins
Origin of Obamacare1
Example Sentences
Congressional Republicans want to preserve tax cuts for the rich by cutting Medicaid, Medicare, Obamacare, green energy and much more.
“Obama didn’t design the Obamacare website that crashed, but he set up the system that produced it,” she noted.
He also cited providing more than 300 million people access to healthcare, with 46 million Americans getting health insurance coverage because of the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare.
He won a big tax cut — the easy part — but stumbled when he tried to repeal Obamacare, and never even presented the big infrastructure bill he promised in his first inaugural address.
A sheaf of proposals to raise costs for Obamacare enrollees comes under the anodyne heading, “Reimagining the Affordable Care Act.”
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