How the *Affordable* Care Act became Trump's biggest political thorn
MSNBC·2025-12-12 04:43
So, I want to talk just for a minute about this healthc care policy. Not what's in it, but just what it's called. Okay.Back in 2009, Republicans Republicans decided to start referring to it, President Obama's healthc care proposal, as Obamacare. As NPR has reported, Obamacare became shorthand for big bad government. Now, fast forward, it's December 2025.The policy has now been law for more than 15 years. And a new poll shows that 57% of Americans actually approve of it. That is the highest number in the his ...