House Democrats are blocking their Republican colleagues from using Obamacare in letters mailed on the taxpayer's dime to voters, but who made up the term in the first place?
Associated Press's Nancy Benac appears to have reported the first derisive use of the term by a political candidate. That candidate was, what do you know, Mitt Romney. On September 15, 2007, Benac wrote:
"Let me tell ya, if we don't do it, the Democrats will," warns Republican Mitt Romney. "And if the Democrats do it, it'll be socialized medicine. It will be government-managed care. It'll be what's known as Hillary-care or Barack Obama-care or whatever you want to call it."
