Republicans will grow to support the Affordable Care Act and stop calling it “Obamacare” in the next decade, the law’s namesake predicted on Friday.
“I’m pretty sure that, you know, in 10 years they’re not going to call it Obamacare anymore,” President Barack Obama told a cheering crowd at Rhode Island College in Providence. “Republicans will be like, ‘Ah, I was for that! Yeah!'”
“That’s how that works,” he said with a smile and a chuckle.
“We’ll remember,” a member of the audience shouted.
“You’ll remember, though,” Obama echoed. “You’ll remind them.”
Republicans derisively labeled the health care law “Obamacare” during the 2009-2010 debate, which initially irritated Democrats, but Obama embraced the term in 2012 during his reelection campaign.
The law has continually struggled in the polls. Republicans have maintained staunch opposition ever since it passed, voting dozens of times in Congress to repeal it. But with the coverage provisions now benefiting millions of Americans, many of them have quieted their criticism of Obamacare in the 2014 election.
“I’m pretty sure that, you know, in 10 years they’re not going to call it Obamacare anymore,” President Barack Obama told a cheering crowd at Rhode Island College in Providence. “Republicans will be like, ‘Ah, I was for that! Yeah!’”
Oh, I dunno. It’s been 80 years since we got Social Security, and Republicans still want to do away with that.
I predict President Obama’s prediction is correct.
They’ve already called it Romneycare.
But you’ll notice, they never want to do that at election time or when they’re running for office. Only after they get into office do they rail against it, but no where near the time they have to appeal to voters. Its a dead loser for them when they do.
True enough.