ObamaCare
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ObamaCare¹
- /oʊˈbɑ məˌkɛəɹ/
Rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
Blend of Obama (“Barack Obama”) + healthcare or Medicare and perhaps influenced by earlier HillaryCare.
proper noun Obamacare · Obama-care · Obama Care
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Any of various healthcare plans seen as associated with Barack Obama before or during his tenure as U.S. President; especially, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590): a healthcare reform plan that was passed in 2010 and signed into law by him.
For some reason, Obama's senior economist, Austan Goolsbee, chooses not to believe this about Obamacare, possibly because he figures the private-but-regulated health-care plans in Obama's National Health Insurance Exchange would be more generous than Obama's public health-care plan.
Similar: Affordable Care Act, ACA, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, PPACA
Obamacare²
proper noun
- Alternative letter-case form of ObamaCare Compared to this litany, the 2010s look a little uneventful, don’t they? Even if you declare Obamacare a big [expletive] deal and grant Trump’s election world-historical significance, even if you bring in European dramas like Brexit and the Syrian refugee crisis, even if you pretend self-driving car
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: cadillac plan, cadillac tax, coronapocalypse, cobra, clinomorphism, occra, occn., ocra, corncake, crit care, caesar's palace, oblique case, occlusion, occro, c-word, orthiconoscope
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title = {ObamaCare},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/obamacare},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
