Poll: Renaming the Public Option

Posted on 09/14/2009 at 1:18 pm by Bob Cesca

We’ve talked about this before, but the public option needs a catchy nickname in order to boost support and to make it sound generally more awesome. So here’s a poll. Add your additional suggestions in the comments. I’m thinking about send the results to both the White House and the appropriate congressional committees.

*Prior suggestion from reader ShelleyBee.
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  • http://oneceltsview.blogspot.com/ Wolfe_Tone

    I’m “FRO FREEDOM!”

  • roxsteady

    How about the Public Insurance Policy? (PIP)

  • roxsteady

    Actually, I think the Public Insurance Policy is good. It’s essentially what you’d be buying and makes a clear distinction between the Mafis, I mean the private insurance policy.

  • roxsteady

    The private insurance mafia would hate this because it’s so simple. And it’s the kind of simplicity that is required for your average teabagger!

  • bboy

    The Kennedy PlanorTedicare

  • roxsteady

    I like that one bboy! That’s a pretty good one too!

  • Eric

    O.K. – I voted for ‘Publicare’, but then I saw Rox’s ‘PIP’ and that seemed better.Actually, until the legislation passes, I’m wary of doing anything – just leave it. Slap a new name on it now and it gives ammo to the opposition. Don’t ask me how – I don’t know – but they’ll figure out a way.

  • roxsteady

    Off topic, I read that PhRMA has done a $150 million dollar ad buy to push the Baucus bill. Big surprise since they wrote it and it was sent to their lobbyists before the it was sent to the President. Raul Grivalja who is the head of the Progressive Caucus had alredy slammed this bill as illegitimate and this just further proves that. Let’s hope that people like Ed Shultz, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow hammer this point home all week. This bill should be publically slammed for what it is. A gift to the insurance industry written by the inusrance industry!

  • roxsteady

    I was just talking about PIP with my sister. I told her that people could also be issued PIP cards just like those socialists that have Medicare and Medicaid cards. We’d have a PIP Card!

  • Allonfla

    I don’t like any of them. Something with the word “choice” in it.

  • http://oneceltsview.blogspot.com/ Wolfe_Tone

    Allonfla, the Teabaggers would no doubt confuse anything with “choice” in the name as a pro-abortion initiative.

  • http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/ Annette

    I have been calling it Kennedy Care or Teddy Care ever since the HELP bill came out.. That’s been my choice all along..It was his life time achievement and he worked hard to get it done.. if the lazy asses and cowards in the Congress had done what the President had asked and got this done before the August recess, he would have been there to vote on it and it would have been signed into law before he died.He had it arranged to be taken there in a hospital bed if need be to vote so he could get it passed. That’s why I think it should have his name..This other bill people are trying to push with his name on it is bogus.

  • garnet28

    I think it’s worthwhile to link it to Medicare and Medicaid since they are such popular programs. That’s why I recommend MediChoice.

  • roxsteady

    Annette is right that they should have done it before August before Kennedy died. It would have been a no brainer to have named it after him since he spent his entire life fighting for this.

  • Ann

    I’m just glad that this wasn’t passed under W. The idea that it might be named after him would be just weird. Speaking as a woman, of course.

  • Rollah

    The “Ted Kennedy Wasn’t Jerking Around and People’s Lives Are Not Political Punch-Lines’ Amendment to the America’s Choice to Care for Its Citizens” Act.Too long and not catchy enough?

  • fork-in-it

    I think the idea here is to come up with something that a) the media will latch onto and use it in their headlines when talking about the bill, and b) something that would make anyone who votes against it sound like a complete asshole. (Why are you against Freedom? Why do you hate Healthy Patriots?)
    I like “Fair Care”–has sort of a New Deal ring to it.

  • Eric

    @Ann – The Bush health care act? Maybe that’s what this sign was all about…

  • nurunr

    I voted for Securitycare, but I’d like to suggest a name. It should invoke patriotism, indicate that it covers everyone (or could), distinguish that it is our policy (as opposed to other countries), and be similar to “Medicare.” How about… AMERICARE?

  • prcleburne

    Americare

  • Eric

    Damn, that’s real good.Americare.

  • nurunr

    Hey thanks! I really like it too!

  • Allonfla

    No, no, no. It should contain the words Middle Class, Affordability and Choice. Then make it an acronym so people will remember it.

  • fork-in-it

    Yes, Americare–slam dunk!

  • ShelleyBee

    Hey, I saw my name! I was being cartoonishly cynical with “Healthy Patriots Initiative,” but AmeriCare does have a nice ring to it, like AmeriCorps.Since a public option may be many people’s first choice, or our first healthcare plan ever, and since this may remedy a national crisis/emergency, how about “First Aid?”

  • ShelleyBee

    Okay, more cynical: America First Aid!

  • prcleburne

    Nurnur-Maybe you and I can be like Newton and Leibniz, who both claimed credit for inventing calculus. You did beat me to ” Americare” by 7 minutes.PRC

  • nurunr

    PRC-I didn’t realize that you were offering up “Americare,” just thought that you were pondering my mention (in a ‘scratching the chin’ sorta way). It took me a bit to post that comment, tho, since I had forgotten my password and had to re-register. Let’s just say “Great minds think alike!!”