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llmart

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29. I agree with you on not referring to it as Obamacare...

Tue May 9, 2017, 03:33 PM

May 2017

even though President Obama even embraced it after awhile.

I'm a person who thinks words and semantics and language are very, very important. This is akin to when they starting to refer to our party as the Democrat party instead of Democratic. It may sound like a very small thing, but it isn't. Words matter.

It is the Affordable Care Act and that's what I have always called it. I work with a woman who's an avowed Republican and she always gets a sneer on her face when she says "Obamacare" and I retort with using the Affordable Care Act in my response.

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Dare them to say it out loud [View all] babylonsister May 2017 OP

They won't say it out loud. Instead, MineralMan May 2017 #1

That's the way conservatives think Metro135 May 2017 #22

ACA winetourdriver01 May 2017 #2

Hell, they would have been ok with it VWolf May 2017 #4

It was DownriverDem May 2017 #17

This message was self-deleted by its author Little Star May 2017 #36

I agree, confront them! mountain grammy May 2017 #3

Just as facts have a liberal bias, truth these days has an asshole bias... Moostache May 2017 #9

You are a brave woman. TNNurse May 2017 #5

Thank you and I will follow your lead, righteous sister! TexasProgresive May 2017 #6

They need to be *TOLD*. They *LIKE* that. Seriously. nt LaydeeBug May 2017 #7

This is great! Also we need to directly confront that false assertion that ACA is failing. Because JudyM May 2017 #8

IF the ACA is failing Scarsdale May 2017 #13

The GOP is hogtying the ACA pandr32 May 2017 #20

And the puke voters not fooled May 2017 #24

Huzzah....... ProudMNDemocrat May 2017 #10

Yep! GOOD one! Matthew 25:35-45 can really punch their lights out. calimary May 2017 #12

I agree with you on not referring to it as Obamacare... llmart May 2017 #29

They also don't know that Republicans are the reason for Obamacare's difficulties. Marco Rubio Akamai May 2017 #11

Yep Ohioboy May 2017 #19

thank you for your courage. yes, MAKE THEM SAY IT OUT LOUD. niyad May 2017 #14

Like I said before . . . Admitting error is a Cardinal Sin in ConservaTopia. HughBeaumont May 2017 #15

Excellent strategy for the rest of us to use MLAA May 2017 #16

Kick Hekate May 2017 #18

I admire you. qwlauren35 May 2017 #21

Right on! K&R Mountain Mule May 2017 #23

The failing of "Obamacare" is a result of insurance companies tiredtoo May 2017 #25

Absolutely. llmart May 2017 #27

good for you!!!! I cant get this confrontational.... samnsara May 2017 #26

yup mac56 May 2017 #28

I have come to the sad realization that ultimately most people care only about themselves. Honeycombe8 May 2017 #30

k for visibility riversedge May 2017 #31

I agree except... 2naSalit May 2017 #32

Whoever this person is, BlancheSplanchnik May 2017 #33

Wow!!! Very powerful!! I admire you. n/t. NNadir May 2017 #34

I am so fucking tired of PoindexterOglethorpe May 2017 #35