Why did Obamacare get called healthcare reform?

[boynton35]

It doesn't address the lack of personnel and facilities and equipment. It didn't cause any prices to go down. The ones who passed it can't even tell us what it covers because most of them didn't read it, but who wrote it? Why not start with cost control and improving the equipment in treatment facilities and adding funding for producing medical personnel? With more doctors competing for patients, they'd have to cut prices. With tax-dollar equipment provided, hospitals and clinics could operate with lower budgets, and with a formula to determine damages, insurance companies which cover malpractice could lower premiums. There could even be programs for loan forgiveness if a new doctor set up practice in nonserviced areas. Why did it pass as healthcare?

[christie42]

I am Quite sure the President got what he wanted or he would have vetoed it.

As to the question, it was called Healthcare reform precisely for the same reason the Patriot Act got its name.
To dupe the idiots that did not read it.
Some may argue that they did not have time.
That is BS of course, if they did their jobs and upheld their Oaths they would simply have voted NO and then re-visited it at a later date.

[colfre]

I believe you have that backwards, the President wanted universal healthcare much to the opposition of the healthcare industry.

[ahanu]

I believe you have that backwards, the President wanted universal healthcare much to the opposition of the healthcare industry.

Because they can't tell the truth and call it what it is, which is just another liberal progressive, big government power grab.

[hwistlere31]

If they called it what it really is, it wouldn't have gotten passed