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[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Affordable care act, also referred to as Obamacare. The name Obamacare was coined by republicans the actual name of the legislation was the affordable care act

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The ACA was basically a federal version of Romneycare. It was cowritten by Republicans who as a party instantly forgot that they helped write it and demonized it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

With modifications making it not as good, to be clear.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

“Romneycare” was already taken, and as an uninformed Canadian, isn’t it basically similar?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

It’s the same thing but (and I may be mistaken on this) I think Romneycare is actually a little better? They weren’t able to implement a single payer option on the ACA because Joe Lieberman sabotaged it, but I assume he wasn’t able to sabotage it on the original draft Romney put through in his version

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Yes. So similar in fact that Romneycare basically never changed in its original state of Massachusetts. All the systems set up for Romneycare were copied at the national level.