Obamacare And The Affordable Care Act Are The Same Thing

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canada goose store We’ve triple checked this. Congressional observers who witnessed the passage of the legislation say that the Affordable Care Act was enacted on March 20, 2010, after a lengthy legislative battle. We’ve looked into these claims, and they check out. However, it should be noted that the canada goose black friday sale law’s most fervent supporter also happens to be the man who signed it into law President Barack Obama. And, at some point during the hullabaloo that presaged its canada goose store enactment, the Affordable Care Act also became known as Obamacare. canada goose store

But here’s the rub: At some point after its enactment, there arose a notion that “the Affordable Care Act” and “Obamacare” were two different things entirely. This has sowed confusion ever since.

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There’s a pause, and you do something of a double take, because as far as you could remember, your confidant was actually receiving health care coverage from an Obamacare exchange. Confused, you stutter, “But Damocles!” your friend in this scenario is named “Damocles” “You get your health insurance through Obamacare.”

canada goose uk shop “Not at all, Phaedra,” he replies. (For some reason you are named “Phaedra,” just go with it.) “I get my health care through the Affordable Care Act.” canada goose uk shop

If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. As the inauguration of President elect Donald Trump nears, and talk on Capitol Hill turns to how and when the GOP controlled Congress will repeal the Affordable Care Act, and when and with what they shall replace it, we return to a discussion of branding, and whether what people really don’t like about Obamacare is just the part with “Obama.”

This is amazing. Maybe you remember that time Jimmy Kimmel took to the streets, exploiting this ignorance for laughs. Or maybe you had to have a long talk with your pal Damocles, reminding him what life might be like with a sword dangling over his head. If so, you’ve come face to face with an interesting conundrum people don’t always know that “Obamacare” and the “Affordable Care Act” are the same thing.

Canada Goose sale The Affordable Care Act’s polling has always been a fraught, frothy matter. The most common thing we’ve learned over the years is that voters tend to respond more negatively to the total package of the law itself, but very positively to its provisions when they are presented separately. This suggests that the lawmakers who passed the bill did a poor job helping their constituents understand Canada Goose Jackets how the law’s features work. Canada Goose sale

canada goose And the White House did itself a number of disservices, first by not being straight with people about how altering the health insurance marketplace was going to cause noticeable consumer disruption (this earned President Barack Obama a “lie of the year” distinction from Politifact), and then by not launching the exchanges with a website that actually you know worked. canada goose

Through it all, of course, the Affordable Care Act was hurt by the fact that a much larger universe of people have opinions about the health care law than actually use it to obtain health care coverage.

canadian goose jacket The media hasn’t helped matters much, either. We’ve more or less used the shorthand canada goose coats “Obamacare” since it was coined by the law’s opponents. We didn’t do this because we were making some kind of judgment about the law itself. We did this because we in the media love shortcuts (easier to get “Obamacare” in a tweet than “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”) and nicknames (during primary season, we would be lost without our ability to refer to “New Hampshire” as “the Granite State” on second mention). canadian goose jacket

But for a long time, whenever we spoke about Obamacare, we were using a term that was intended to be a pejorative Canada Goose sale at least until Obama “reclaimed” the name for himself, telling people, “I know people call this law Obamacare and that’s OK. Because I do care.”

canada goose black friday sale Which is all well and good, but it probably doesn’t really help people understand that “Obamacare” is the same thing as “The canadian goose jacket Affordable Care Act.” canada goose black friday sale

canada goose factory sale It’s been canada goose deals a longstanding confusion that’s been noticed by pollsters over the years. And when you put the word “Obama” into the mix, it really heats up the passions. canada goose factory sale

They’re two different names for one law, but a new poll cheap Canada Goose shows more Americans oppose the president’s signature health care law when it has his name attached than when it’s called the official name.

According to buycanadagoose.biz a new CNBC poll that surveyed two different groups, 46% of the group that was asked about “Obamacare” was opposed to the buy canada goose jacket cheap law, while 37% of the group asked about the “Affordable Care Act” was opposed to the law.

At the same time, more people support “Obamacare” (29%) than those who support ACA (22%.) In other words, having “Obama” in the name “raises the positives and the negatives,” as CNBC put it.

buy canada goose jacket cheap The Atlantic’s Olga Khazan has noted how deeply this phenomenon has permeated the discourse around the Affordable Care Act. She says it explains “why some Pennsylvanians told me they want subsidies for health insurance, just not Obamacare subsidies.” buy canada goose jacket cheap

Canada Goose Outlet It’s a kind of reverse “halo effect,” says Scott Rick, an associate professor of marketing at the University of Michigan. “If you canada goose clearance sale already like someone, anything new they do gets the benefit of the doubt. If you already dislike someone, everything they subsequently touch is tainted. For many conservatives, Obamacare is the fruit of a poisonous tree.” Canada Goose Outlet

cheap Canada Goose Some states have found the label so toxic that, in an effort to boost enrollment, they hid it. Kentucky expanded Medicaid under Obamacare, but the state called it “Kentucky Connect” (portmanteau’d to “Kynect”) because, as Obama told Vox recently, “I don’t poll that well in Kentucky.” cheap Canada Goose

He Canada Goose Parka really doesn’t! Back in May 2014, NBC News and Marist conducted a survey in which people were asked their opinion on the Affordable Care Act. Half of the respondents were asked their opinions on “Obamacare,” while the other half were asked about “Kynect” the name of the state health care exchange that Kentucky lawmakers built to comply with the Affordable Care Act.

canada goose uk black friday According to the survey, Kynect was much, much more popular among respondents than Obamacare was, no matter how you sliced it. Even Republicans, who expressed their raging disapproval of Obamacare by a gap of 83 percent to 10 percent, only mildly disapproved of Kynect to the tune of 32 percent to 16 percent. canada goose uk black friday

Canada Goose Parka That’s pretty amazing, considering “Kynect” and “Obamacare” are the same thing and also the same thing as “the Affordable Care Act.” Canada Goose Parka.