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Obama-care

Obama-care is the alternative form of ObamaCare.

Meaning of ObamaCare

Proper noun

ObamaCare

  1. (US, neologism) 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.2007 July 5, Timothy Noah, “Edwardscare: A Trojan Horse, in Slate Magazine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
    Synonyms:
    Affordable Care Act, ACA, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, PPACA

Questions about Obama-care

What is Obama-care the alternative form of?
Obama-care is the alternative form of ObamaCare.

Words near Obama-care in the dictionary

  1. Obama mania
  2. Obama Phone
  3. Obama Phones
  4. Obama-can
  5. Obama-cans
  6. Obama-care
  7. Obama-con
  8. Obama-cons
  9. Obama-esque
  10. Obama-mania
  11. Obama-rama

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