Jimmy Kimmel asks which is better, ACA or Obamacare?

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[onehandle]

1. Uninformed Idiot America Lives. nt

[TheDebbieDee]

26. Unfortunately, they vote, too!

[tomm2thumbs]

2. I did the same experiment on my mom - same results

The irony is that labeling it 'Obamacare' perhaps has some short-term pitfalls with those who hate the President anyway, but in the history books, it will forever put a stamp of legacy on this legislation that rests squarely on his efforts to bring health care to those without it in America.

Yay!

[Stainless]

3. That Was Priceless

Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people!

[lamp_shade]

4. Thank you. That is hysterical. Just posted to my facebook.

[SoapBox]

5. Well ya know, Amerika is stoopid!

[Wait Wut]

6. /sigh

I'd say this is depressing, but I've seen so much idiocy surrounding the ACA that I've become jaded. Let them be dumb. Eventually, they'll have no choice but to figure it out.

[SmittynMo]

7. OMG

Did you notice anything labeled with "Obama", is bad for us? I also noticed a racial issue here, which is really sad. All the whites voted for the ACA, and not Obamacare. The one black voted for Obamacare. And the hispanic, said the name speaks for itself? OMG. And why did these people voice their opinions, if they knew they were clueless? I'm willing to bet that the ones against Obamacare, are republicants. Which also tells you of their ignorance and stupidity. I wish they would would have made a fool out of each and every one of them.

[MythosMaster]

14. Progressives should put Conservative

in front of any bills they put on the floor....

The Conservative Affordable Healthcare Act, would sell!

You know those that were filmed would still be in denial after watching this...

[JDPriestly]

22. Why do people voice their opinions if they are clueless?

Because they watch Fox News (or similar media) and think they are informed.

That's the power of propaganda.

[Plucketeer]

8. Yeah - I don't like either one!

See, I don't like Obamacare cause I don't like the idea of muslim medicine. And ACA? Who wants to be part of the American Communist Act??? I like a good ol' hospital emergency room! Love the exciting ride there with the sirens screaming and all the pretty lites flashing to clear the roads. After all, the fact that I had to put off whatever until it reached critical mass - shouldn't the hospital be GLAD to have me as a training aid???

[RedSpartan]

9. Painful as this is to watch, I think it is actually helpful in educating people.

Both the dopes they are interviewing and, more important, the audience watching at home.

[Flo Mingo]

10. These are the people complaining

about the uninformed electorate who voted for Obama.

Stoopid is as stoopid is.

[robinlynne]

11. oh my goodness. I had no idea..

[madfloridian]

12. Just linked to your post at Twitter.

https://twitter.com/madfloridian

Hilarious, but sad. And unfortunately true.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. Right Wing Media has been telling everyone "Obamacare" is free healthcare for black people,...

That's paid for by white people.

[Enrique]

15. it's the opposite of a McNugget

[KansDem]

16. ...and they vote.

[Enthusiast]

46. for people like Ted Cruz.......nt

[shireen]

17. someone should do a nationwilde poll!

Do you prefer the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare?

[rdharma]

18. It's been done...... results similar to Kimmel's.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/09/29/obamacare-affordable-care-act-obama-column/2892183/

"A recent CNBC poll found more Americans oppose ObamaCare than oppose the Affordable Care Act. But more Americans support ObamaCare than the Affordable Care Act.

Confused?

That would be understandable given that these are two names for the same law. CNBC polled two different groups, using "ObamaCare" for one and "Affordable Care Act" for the other. Forty-six percent of the group asked about "ObamaCare" opposed it. But only 37% of those asked about the health law opposed it.

Conversely, ObamaCare had higher support than the law. As CNBC put it, Obama's name "raises the positives and the negatives."

As a rational matter, this is nuts. An informed person should have the same opinions — positive or negative — about a piece of legislation regardless of what it's called. But because politics is so often driven by our attitudes toward specific personalities, for many Americans, their attitudes toward a monumentally significant piece of legislation are driven by something as petty as whether "Obama" is in the title."

[Coyotl]

19. The ACA covers ignorant people, Obamacare does not

[grantcart]

24. lol

[trof]

20. Burton LaFlore, Democratic candidate for AL Dist. 1 feels the same way.

He spoke to our local Democratic club last week.
We had to explain to him that ACA and 'Obamacare' were the same thing.


BTW, he has NO chance in a solid repug district.

[mucifer]

47. Would you really want him to represent you if he doesn't know that?

[trof]

50. No. I will hold my nose and vote for the least objectionable repug.

In a runoff, it's a teabagger vs a guy who switched from Dem to repug in 1997.
I'll take the former Dem in the repug runoff and the general.
The teabagger scares the hell out of me.

[nolabear]

21. That's why it's so important to keep informing people without insulting them.

I get mad at these kinds of folks for what they do to my life and the lives of many Americans, but I also feel sorry for them. Everyone wants to think he's well informed, and often believes he is, when in fact he's just been well manipulated. Our job is to gently, kindly guide them toward what's real. And that's what the facts of this thing will do, at least those who can be guided. The others? Well, they'll get to benefit too. I'll think of it as a particularly nasty illness on their part and hope for a cure.

[Rozlee]

23. Same thing when you tell old teabaggers that their Medicare is socialized medicine.

I thought an argument I had once with one of my husband's old military cronies was going to come to blows after I told him his TRICARE was socialized medicine and so had our Army healthcare when we were active duty. He served partly during the Cold War era and angrily informed me that he deserved his military healthcare and was enraged when I cracked up and told him he was fighting the Evil Socialist Empire for the honor of serving in a socialist organization and having socialist health care.

[toby jo]

25. I hit the righties in my life with that, too. You can get em on schooling,

roadwork, the fired dept., the police dept, the park systems, etc.

It just blows their minds.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

34. Medicare is not socialized medicine, though.

The medical costs are socialized (it's a single-payer system), but the providers are either private or public. So, even saying that Medicare is "socialized medicine" is incorrect. The costs are socialized in terms of payment, but so is every insurance entity then. The delivery (the medicine part) is still either private or public.

An example of "socialized medicine" would be the VA.

Just to make a comparison.

[Rozlee]

35. Ah! Thanks for the clarification.

I use the VA system, but I know Rethugs have long had a hardon for privatizing it. I like it just the way it is.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

36. You're more than welcome!

The Republicans want to privatize everything, and we need to fight them every step of the way.

[cui bono]

27. I hope every one of these ignorant opinionated fools watches themselves on TV

and hears the audience laughing at them.

[heaven05]

28. geez

unfucking believable!

[liberal N proud]

29. You made me look stupid - NO, your did a fine job of that all by your self

Uninformed America thanks to the "librul media"

[Neoma]

49. This is because of the culture of having to always be right.

A sign of someone who makes room to be wrong is someone who actually asks questions of say, the difference between ACA and Obama care. Clearly all these people don't truly know, but they pretend to know it. There isn't a difference between the two, but thinking there is, is a natural response to a question that does separate something they don't know much about.

That's what I have problems with, people who don't ask questions and thinks they know enough to argue the topic to the death and state their opinions down firm on something they don't really know about.

[Sky Masterson]

30. Stop. Copy Link. Post to your facebook accounts.

Proof that people hate what they don't understand.
Hmmm..So, If you get people to not understand something, then they will fear it an probably tend to hate it.
Fascinating...

[drynberg]

31. I'm thinkin' that sheepal just repeat what some talkin' head says and ignors reality

This is very sad, and makes me think that s/he who can get Americans to really listen will call the shots, y'know, be in the Oval Office. Any ideas as to how this could be done?

[yuiyoshida]

32. I bet everyone is a Fox News Viewer

wotcha think?

[Fantastic Anarchist]

33. Hilarious.

[zebonaut]

37. Thats why rethugs call it Obamacare; they know people are stupid

Why did we let them call it Obamacare?????

[valerief]

40. In a year, when it's a success, the rethugs will call it Romneycare or Heritagecare. nt

[SmittynMo]

43. Now that they think it's called that,

it's gives them one more reason to hate it. Anything tagged with his name must mean it's bad, bad, bad. The hatred of the right comes out again, and again.

[BillyRibs]

38. OOOOOOOOOOOOO!

THE STUPID HURTS SO MUCH!

[valerief]

39. Thank you, Jimmy! nt

[nilram]

41. what a good sport that lady is.

[SmittynMo]

42. This thing has gone viral

Sure says a lot for these uninformed FAUX viewers.

[SmittynMo]

44. I wish they would have asked one more question and

then made total fools out of each and every one of them, by telling them its the same thing. And the other question would have been: What news channel do you frequent?

[pacalo]

45. This is great! You have to laugh to keep from crying.

It's a testament to Fixed News & all the Chuck ("fact-checking is not my job&quot Todds out there. This is their handiwork -- the fruit of their labor.

[question everything]

48. K&R

No different from 2009 when a would be Teabagger demanded that the government not touch his Medicare..