White House Doesn't Want It Called Trump Care

[dyresand]

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/tr...eal-235831

White House: Don’t call it Trumpcare

Critics are hijacking the branding process for the GOP health plan as the White House resists slapping the president’s name on it.

Fine.

Whiny Little Bitch Care works for me.

Trump care = ACA lite
Trump care = Obama care lite
Trump care = here is cheap useless insurance for the young and if you get sick or have a pre existing health condition fuck you care (oh and it's tax free for the rich).

[Aegon]

We need some truth in advertising from the asshats in Washinton. I vote we call it "The Republicans Don't Care Health Act."

If you want to be really truthful, call it Eugenics ...

Employees who decline genetic testing could face penalties under proposed bill

Wow. This is not okay.

[Tiberius]

Obama never put his name on it, that was done to deride him and it.  We'll enjoy doing the same to the dumbass.

True, but he did eventually start calling it Obamacare and even said he liked the name. That was IMO a mistake.

[Autumnlicious]

Probably was. Accepting the name wasn't required on his part though - his supporters knew that ACA was Obamacare, whereas his critics and anti-fans wilfully obscured the relation so they could have a strawman to demolish.

Since the Fox News-fed lot had bought the delusion that ACA was not Obamacare, all it took was "Repeal (and maybe replace...)!" to drum up support, knowing full well that such support was based on a lie.

Obama mismanaged the Democratic party pretty badly and has his other mistakes, but I think judging him by his critics unfair and incorrect labeling of the ACA to create a strawman is... off. You can not satisfy an unfair critic - all they do is change the goalposts. Perhaps he though (erroneously) that by claiming the Obamacare name he could relink it as ACA, one and the same.

It didn't work, namely because the people who angrily react to the word Obamacare have a low chance of even listening to, let alone be persuaded by, Obama. And those who already know that Obamacare is an alias for ACA didn't gain much from him seizing the name.

[Seraphina]

Obama never put his name on it, that was done to deride him and it.  We'll enjoy doing the same to the dumbass.

True, but he did eventually start calling it Obamacare and even said he liked the name. That was IMO a mistake.

I don't think he had much choice in the matter, particularly when you have Americans who are unable to understand that Obamacare = the Affordable Care Act. A snappy nickname with fewer syllables is much easier to digest, I suppose.

[Minimalist]

Drumpfucks demand simplicity.

[Alex K]

In entirely unrelated history factoids, did you know that the Hindenburg wasn't called "Hitler" because he forbade his name to be on anything that could crash or sink?

[Anomalocaris]

All the more reason to name it trumpcare.

[Minimalist]

[Amarok]