It's been mentioned here that some people don't know that ACA and Obamacare are the same thing.

[Ms. Toad]

6. Obamacare was created as a perjorative - and IMO, democrats embracing it is part of the reason

believe it is something separate.

When those who want to dismantle "Obamacare" interact with the government or the medical institutions, it is referred to as ACA. People who are receiving the medical care they need recognize its value, and truly believe that Obamacare bit the dust one of the many times Republicans repealed it - and that the ACA is something different. It has to be because that medical care they got pretty darn cheaply was a good thing.

Embracing the perjorative is one of several mistakes the Obama administration made in rolling out the ACA
* Not getting in front of the curve when people started trashing it
* Allowing full implementation to take so long (as initially adopted by Congress)
* Delaying the merged cap for pharmacy & medical (that one personally cost me a few thousand dollars, and it meant that we have not been living in the fully implemented system long enough for the rage to have settled into recognition of value)

So Obamacare was intended to doom it, and it largely has. While I'm eternally grateful that I've had 3 years of mnimal worry about medical care (for 20 of the 23 years my daughter has had two enormously costly chronic illnesses), I'm pissed that the opportunity to make it permanent and to ensure people knew its value before the election of Trumpm was squandered. Because I'm now back to worrying whether even spending down my entire retirement savings will be sufficient to keep my daughter alive.