Here is a chronicle of the evolution of Obamacare from being the birth of Jesus to now being a racial epithet.
Obamacare? Call it Obamacare all you want!
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Those awful Republicans won’t call it Obamacare when starts working!
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Then, what with the disastrous rollout, democrats decided they needed to “rebrand” Obamacare. Calling it Obamacare was no longer de reigueur. Besides, Obama’s ego, which was so happy to be called Obamacare, no longer wanted to be seen as a failure.
Steny Hoyer started talking funny.
“Yeah, I wish I hadn’t called it ‘Obamacare’ before, because that has politicized it and has been used by Republicans as a pejorative term,” Hoyer, D-Md., said after a reporter noted Tuesday that he repeatedly called the health care law by its formal name.
“I don’t know that we need to re-brand the Affordable Care Act,” he said. “We do need to say it is the Affordable Care Act.”
A year before it was just fine:
“You want to call it ‘Obamacare’ – that’s okay, because I do care,” Obama said at a 2012 Atlanta fundraiser.
“I actually like the name,” Obama said at a 2012 campaign stop at the University of Denver. “Because I do care – that’s why we fought so hard to make it happen.”
Then Obama stopped calling it Obamacare.
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Leno noticed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUz_xrOeAwE
How bad has it gotten? It’s gotten so bad that the Obama puppets at MSNBC now equate to the N-word.
When nonsense such as this arises you know Obamacare is not far from the Barackolypse.
And we can’t leave without the remembering the words from the poster girl for Alzheimer’s:
You can’t keep your doctor.
You can’t keep your plan.
You can’t keep your hospital.
And now you’re not covered to get the best treatment when you need it. Even if your life depends on it.
But that was the plan all along. As long as you’re as wealthy as Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid or Barack Obama you’ll be able to pay for the very best care. You’ll sleep better knowing that none of this will affect them.
Charlie Cook says that all this is having an impact, and it’s very bad news for democrats.
Then, in mid-October, the focus shifted from the government-shutdown fiasco to a different debacle, this time a Democratic disaster: the botched launch of the Obamacare website and subsequent implementation problems of the health care law, including termination notices going out to many people who had insurance coverage. The Democratic numbers from the generic-ballot test dropped from 45 percent to 37 percent, and Republicans moved up to 40 percent. This 10-point net shift from a Democratic advantage of 7 points to a GOP edge of 3 points in just over a month is breathtaking, perhaps an unprecedented swing in such a short period. Occurring around Election Day, such a shift would probably amount to the difference between Democrats picking up at least 10 House seats, possibly even the 17 needed for a majority, and instead losing a half-dozen or so seats.
One can only hope.
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
But “Obamacare” has ALWAYS been a racial slur, just as we’ve always been at war with Eastasia.
By the way, Obama and the Dems NEVER said you could keep your doctor or your health care plan. Period.
During World War II, Hitler feared the heavy cruiser Deutschland (Germany) would be sunk and prove to be a political embarrassment. So, they renamed it Lutzow (bad luck, by the way, to rename a ship).
There are more than one similarities here.
Conservative campaign ads need to include a snippet of Obama stating his lie about keeping your doctor and your insurance plan PERIOD, along with him claiming he will decrease the cost of health insurance by $2500/yr per family – followed by video of the dem candidate for that congressional district and that state (if they repeated the claim or anything positive about obamacare) and show such ads over and over again – along with the increased cost of the premiums AND the annual deductible AND the decreased number of doctors and hospitals.
Do not let the leftists use their smoke and mirrors tactics to get away with their obvious lies….RAM THE TRUTH HOME and wake up the LIVs to the extreme danger they and their family members are in if the dems are allowed to continue destroying medical care in the US.
Yea,
They sure liked till it became synonymous with “EPIC FAIL”.
Comedians are getting plenty of traction with it.
Maybe it can be considered otherwise, such as, “Who can tell the biggest lie”!
DrJohn, thanks for linking the MSNBC Melissa Harris-Perry attempt to draw ObamaCare as the ”N-word.”
She even claimed that the only reason Obama, himself used it was to use it like how blacks in America use the “N-word,” while others cannot.
As if!
The truth is far too uncomfortable for Melissa.
Obama embraced the word as long as it was looking good and, like so much before it, he threw it under the bus when it was not helpful to him any longer.
I’m amazed the wheels on Obama’s bus can still turn enough to continue to crush all the used idiots, real and imagery, Obama throws under there.
Ha ha – great post, Dr. John!
Here can be the new RNC campaign slogan across the country: “We need to repeal the bill before we find out what else is in it”
You’re welcome GOP, you’re welcome!
The GOP insistence on using ‘Obamacare ‘will ensure his legacy as one of the greatest Presidents in decades. Good on you!
@Brother Bob:
That’s outstanding.
@This one:
What a delusional little fool you are. That is why Obama and tbe dems changed from calling it obamacare to the ACA.
When we’re children we are sometimes afraid of the unknown. They told us this about communism and terrorism. Now as adults we understand and reject any and all of ObamaScare. Didn’t Obama know his socialist-communist extortionist plans would die?
There is a basic idea that a building is only as good as i’s foundation. Not only is obama’s building imploding, it has been found out that there is very little foundation under it. Most foundations are built out of concrete, steel, and other things to make it strong. obama’s obamacare foundation was built out of:
(1) The average person will save $2,500 per year ($208.33 per month). This should have raised a red flag to the building inspectors right away.
(2) You can keep your doctor.
(3) You can keep your health plan.
(4) You can keep your hospital.
This reminds me of the cartoon of two men looking at the blueprints of the tall building being constructed behind them. One is saying to the other one, “Elevator? What elevator.” The obamacare building didn’t have any elevators or stairways.
If obamacare were a new car, you wouldn’t be able to start it without buying a lot of extras, and you wouldn’t be able to drive it off of the lot, and the average person wouldn’t be able to make the payments, and the new owner wouldn’t even be able to go back to the lot to see their new obamacar when they want to.
@Brother Bob: #7
There are so many slogans that the republicans can use, but they could have made a better effort at the last election. I don’t expect them to give conservatives anyone we want.
Another slogan they could use:
I will never vote for a bill I never read.
@This one:
Your branching out into comedy is amateurish but it did make me chuckle.
Clueless again today you are.
@This one: Oh, his legacy is secured and etched in stone. Obamacare, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the IRS, the NSA and, OH! so many ohters, have assured that.
It just isn’t the legacy you envision.
Actually, it’s the: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) — whose acronym is pronounced somewhat near the sound of a cat coughing up a hair ball.
how much millions have been spent by now, it;s the bad sign telling OBAMA,
TO LET IT GO, LIKE TED CRUZ GAVE HIM A CHANCE TO BACK OF,
BUT OBAMA DOESN NEGOTIATE NOTHING, AND NOW HE IS STILL SPENDING MONEY
ON OBAMACARE, WHICH DOESN;T GO IN THE CARE OF SICK PEOPLE,
HOW MUCH MORE MONEY WILL HE SPEND FOR now hiring two high positions persons who don;t work for peanuts, JUST TO SELL OBAMACARE, WHICH IS NOT WORKING ,
just like the DOCTORS refuse to be dictated on how to do their jobs for peanuts, AND WHAT TIME THEY WOULD GIVE TO THE SICK PEOPLE,
THIS IS AN BLATANT WAY TO EMPOWER THE ELITES OF THIS AMERICA, WHO KNOW BETTER,
SO INSTEAD IT WILL HIRE LOWER COST LOWER KNOWLEDGE LOWER READYNESS TO BE DOCTOR, NO EXPERIENCE,
AND GIVE THEM MEDIOCRE JOBS , ON THE TIMES DESCRIBED BY A BUNCH OF REGULATORS
WATCH PEOPLE TO SEE THAT THE RULES MUST BE OBEY, AS OPPOSE TO THE NEED
TO WORK ON THE BETTERNESS OF THE SICK PEOPLE,