New York Post

ObamaCare by Any Name

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President Obama last week all but admitted that the Affordable Care Act is as flawed as the Samsung Galaxy 7 — and asked the GOP to take ownership before ObamaCare’s battery explodes.

If Republican­s in Congress help fix the law, he oh-so-generously offered to let them rename it: “They can even change the name of the law to ReaganCare,” Obama said to laughs from a Florida crowd. “Or they can call it PaulRyanCa­re.”

Thing is, it was Republican­s and other critics who dubbed it “ObamaCare” in the first place — because they wanted his name forever tied to the wildly misdesigne­d program, which they was doomed to fail.

The president is proud of adding 20 million Americans to the insurance rolls — yet that comes almost exclusivel­y from expanding Medicaid, at a cost of tens of billions a year.

Meanwhile, the reform’s centerpiec­e, the remaking of the private insurance marketplac­e, is a disaster: The “Affordable” Care Act outlawed policies that covered millions of Americans, and signups on the Obama- Care exchanges barely exceed that.

And now the exchanges are in the muchfeared “death spiral” of soaring costs and falling enrollment. Insurers across the nation are pulling out after losing billions on exchange policies.

Obama’s only idea for a fix is to spend even more taxpayer cash on subsidies. The GOP will never give him that, so he’s pretending to be open to new Republican ideas for solutions — hence the “ReaganCare” line.

But he gave away the game with his joke at Samsung’s expense: “When one of these companies comes out with a new smartphone,” he said, but “it has a few bugs . . . “they fix it, [they] upgrade it.”

Then, with a laugh, he noted, “Unless it catches fire — then they pull it off the market.”

Galaxy users are switching to iPhones, Androids and other devices. But ObamaCare users don’t have other options — because Obama’s “reform” outlawed them.

That’s why the only solution to this disaster is to pull ObamaCare entirely off the market — by repealing it.

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