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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBefore it was Obamacare...
...it was Hillarycare?
Is that what Hillary is saying now?
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Before it was Obamacare... (Original Post)
SHRED
Jan 2016
OP
Why are you surprised ?
SHRED
(28,136 posts)3. just so blatant...that's all
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)2. Romneycare ftfy nt
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)4. Heritagecare actually..
TIME TO PANIC
(1,894 posts)7. yeah, wasn't it created by the Heritage Foundation.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)10. DiMasicare would be a better name
The Democratic state legislature forced him to sign it, remember, and overrode 6 of his 8 his rescissions. (They had the votes for a full override, but if he did a full veto and they overrode, the two rescissions he got would have survived too.)
left lowrider
(97 posts)5. It was Romneycare
It was Romneycare. . . you know the heart and soul of the Democratic party.
ecstatic
(32,712 posts)6. You may not have been born yet, but:
The Clinton health care plan, known officially as the Health Security Act and unofficially nicknamed "Hillarycare" (after First Lady Hillary Clinton) by its detractors, was a 1993 healthcare reform package proposed by the administration of President Bill Clinton and closely associated with the chair of the task force devising the plan, First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_health_care_plan_of_1993
Also, she may have been referring to the way GOPers have a history of nicknaming democratic healthcare plans.
JohnnyLib2
(11,212 posts)8. Yup, and that went on for years.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)9. I keep expecting her to remind us how she invented the Internet.