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Similarly, it's not health care reform -- it's health insurance reform! That little misnomer has been driving me crazy...
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@1 True dat.

Its also not National Health care nor a Democratic idea/plan. The Dems under Clinton tried and failed to pass a National Health care plan.

The Republicans responded first through the Heritage foundation conservative think tank by developing a Health Insurance reform plan. Romney modeled his Health Insurance reform plan after the Heritage foundation's work and passed it in Massachusetts. To at the time cheers from the Republicans.

Obama and the Democrats looked at the political landscape, the state of health care in the US and decided something had to be done. They knew the Republican's would never allow a National Health Care plan to pass. So they went with the Republican National Health Insurance reform plan.

In short the Obama and the Democrats passed a Republican plan. The Republican response, they lost their collective minds.

ACA, Obamacare, Romneycare, whatever you want to call it is not a solution to the problem but it damn sure a step in the right direction. For that alone we should be grateful and re-elect Obama.

The door has been opened once fully implemented ACA will provide us the room we need to get down to developing an actual National Health Care Reform plan.

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I like to call it Romneycare 2.01 ...

Not as efficient as Single Payer Healthcare, mind you.
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Yes, lets fight horrible slurs, with more horrible slurs! Great idea!!

Can we extend this to horrible stereotypes as well?
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SPAM ON AISLE TWO!!!!!!
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What @3 said x100. While in my darker moments I think of it as the Oh Well *Shrug* Plan, I want to see it fully implemented and built upon, particularly a switch to reimbursement for measurable outcomes rather than per-procedure. I also want to see solid investigation and development of electronic medical records, including full access for client review and error correction (which, to avoid devolving into complete fiction, requires ongoing protection against rescission and refusal to cover pre-existing conditions).

I usually refer to the currently implemented and pending reforms as the Affordable Care Act in day-to-day conversation. I understand the impulse to call it Romneycare, but that risks confusion with the framework as implemented in Massachusetts alone. "Omni-Romneycare" might be more accurate.

Yes, the Dems suck at branding/messaging.
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No, because calling it Romneycare will give Romney a chance to take credit for it next month when the advantages become apparent to him.
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I have been calling it Robertscare.

Win win
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No! Obamacare is good! Once all the idiots out there realize how great the care act really is, it will forever be associated with Obama and the dems.

The conservatives have been extremely short sighted on this. They're the ones cementing Obama and the democrats positive legacy on this.
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I agree with @10. Obama should own this and run with calling it Obamacare.
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Liberals choosing to call it "RomneyCare" will only serve to reinforce the views of progressive voters who view the Obama administration as a hopeless sell-out and indistinguishable from the Republicans. Conservatives don't care what you call it or that Romney supported a similar plan, but some progressives might stay home or decide to cast a "protest vote" (i.e. a vote for a candidate with no hope of winning) if they hear enough "both sides are identical in every way" rhetoric between now and November.
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As a supporter of the health insurance reform law, even though it didn't go far enough, I love calling it Obamacare. In person I'm happy to associate a good law with Obama. Online I want as many googleable links between the word Obamacare and positive comments and the positive aspects of the law.
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@1 has it right. The single biggest messaging mistake the Democrats have made since 2009 is conflating health care with insurance. Separate those two, make it clear the law is for regulating insurance companies, not medical care, and you head off all the "death panels" talk and force the conservatives to defend fat cat insurance profiteers. Everybody hates insurance companies, but everybody loves the archetype of the kindly family doctor. They should have led with that, and it should now always be referred to as "insurance reform".
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Pretty much all the lefty and D sources I've seen have been calling it Obamacare for the past month or so, having figured out what 10 and 11 did.
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@12: DID YOU VOTE FOR NADER? You are so fired. Just because there's bad doesn't mean there's not WAYYYYYY worse than bad. Anyone who calls herself a "progressive" while failing to note distinctions between the prospect of a second Obama term and Romney is an addled ideologue. And because older, more conservative people are always more likely to vote, voter abstinence hurts the left more than the right, so if you're doing it in the name of progressivism, FAIL.
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Call it Obamacare, with the tag line, "Obamacare, it's way better than Romneydon'tgiveafuck."

It repositions the argument about Obamacare back to taking care of people and away from the financial cost that that will inevitably entail. It also underscores Republican's lack of a plan to do something comprehensive about health care, while at the same time playing the Romney doesn't care about the poor/working class/middle class card.

If successful, every time someone says "Obamacare" it will conjure images of a caring President Obama against an aloof and arrogant Romney.
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@16 - Right on, Jen.

A lot of ideologues on these threads claim to have too much moral fiber to vote for the lesser of two evils, even when they admit that one evil is far greater than the other. (These are the same people who would rather see 30 million people remain uninsured than support anything other than single-payer. Because they have too much moral fiber.)

There is no moral high ground in doing nothing while the greater evil wins.
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It should be called Obama care, just because Republicans hate everything Obama does:)

Maya
http://softperv.com
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@16: Yes, I agree with you. No, I did not vote for Nader, although it does make me sad that our system precludes principled votes for third party candidates. My point is that this election cycle a lot of progressive voters, true to form, are turning against Obama, and pointing out that the ACA is similar to Republican plans that preceded it is just fuel to that fire. As rhetoric, I don't think it hurts Romney as much as it hurts Obama with his own base.
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Obama care is right. I agree with this....

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