[bhunter]

Originally Posted by beej

Legislation indeed frequently gets an informal name but in this case the term 'Obamacare' carries a pejorative connotation that has been almost exclusively employed by Republicans, or do you disagree?

The President of the United States happens to be black. The PPACA is one of the signature achievements of his presidency thus far. The use of that term before an exclusively black audience who relates closely to the President for many important reasons was not incidental. It surprises me not at all then that the audience responded negatively to the use of the term 'Obamacare.'

You didn't get the memo:

In January 2011, Celinda Lake, the Democratic pollster, was quoted in a Kaiser Health News article suggesting that ACA's supporters would need to wait to use Obamacare until the president's ratings improved.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolit...race-obamacare

You're now supposed to refer to PPACA as Obamacare.