obamacare
/oʊˈbɑ məˌkɛəɹ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.89 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
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.
American usage
name
Alternative letter-case form of ObamaCare.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "This is a trick. This is a trick that's going on here. This idea that, that whether it's HillaryCare, or ObamaCare, or EdwardsCare, that idea that it's not socialized medicine is a trick. It's a massive growth in government control of medicine."
- "Those who designed ObamaCare were willing to sacrifice marriage for the sake of seeming to be “progressive and equitable,” even though social science research reveals a clear link between single motherhood and poverty."
- "This book will tell you what is right and wrong with Obamacare and will offer solutions to improve healthcare in our country so that it remains of high quality and sustainable financially in the future for all Americans."
- "Of course ObamaCare is socialism. It has been designed along explicitly socialist lines[…]"
- "We have a disaster called the big lie: Obamacare. Obamacare."
Etymology
Blend of Obama (“Barack Obama”) + healthcare or Medicare and perhaps influenced by earlier HillaryCare.
Usage
- American usage