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Isn’t that the government promoting government programs (the ACA)?

Yeah, it's no different than if the current administration printed up some flyers with "Overstaying your visa is a civil infraction and puts you at risk of deportation." I might not like them, but they wouldn't be a Hatch Act violation either.

Naturally this assumes the flyer doesn't have something else on it like a photoshopped picture of Trump's head on Rambo's body shaking hands with Jesus, which would be wrong on... many different levels.

Stop with these what about isms. People have done bad things all the time, that does not mean we need to allow the current group of people to continue destroying the world.

No, the law is called the "Affordable Care Act" precisely to avoid making it partisan with an active politician's name getting free advertising on the side.

If was Republicans who spent years promoting that unofficial nickname of "Obamacare" as an insult!

> [2011] Arguing that Obamacare is at this point a derogatory term, House Democrats want to ban the term from mailers sent from Congressional offices [saying it] violates the rules against sending mailers for "personal, partisan, or political reasons."

You are literally blaming the victim for something the other side did.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2011/10/house-democrats...

>It was Republicans who spent years promoting that unofficial nickname of "Obamacare" as an insult!

Thank you. It was picked up by many of the public as a popular term for a popular president. But I don't think I've ever heard any Democrat in policy call it Obamacare. Closest we get is maybe "Healthcare reform under Obama".

The original purpose of the term was always to stroke the flames of people who people who hated Obama. So that they associate Obama with "giving handouts".

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