“epithet”?? The administration themselves are calling it Obamacare, it’s referred to as that on IRS forms!
That caught my attention too. To my surprise, the first meaning of the word is not the pejorative sense of it.
ep- i- thet
[ep-uh-thet]
noun
any word or phrase applied to a
person or thing to describe an actual
or attributed quality:
Richard the Lion-Hearted is an
epithet of Richard I.