--- title: Jimmy Kimmel: Obamacare vs. Affordable Care Act Prank VIDEO description: Jimmy Kimmel sent his team out on the street to ask random passerby whether they preferred Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act. canonical: https://time.com/4637918/jimmy-kimmel-obamacare-vs-affordable-care-act/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-18T19:44:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:15.716Z og:title: Jimmy Kimmel Proves People Still Don't Know What Obamacare Is og:description: "One is you pay and then the other one is Obama pays" og:url: https://time.com/4637918/jimmy-kimmel-obamacare-vs-affordable-care-act/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Kimmel Proves People Still Don't Know What Obamacare Is twitter:description: "One is you pay and then the other one is Obama pays" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Jimmy Kimmel Prove People Still Think Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act Are Different Things  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 18, 2017 7:44 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 18, 2017 7:44 PM UTC [Jimmy Kimmel](http://time.com/4637612/jimmy-kimmel-on-election-circus/) is up to one of his old tricks. By recreating a [2013 segment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx2scvIFGjE) in which he sent his team out on the street to ask random passerby whether they preferred [Obamacare](http://time.com/4636490/obamacare-repeal-congressional-budget-office/) or the [Affordable Care Act](http://time.com/money/4633181/obamacare-repeal-what-now/), the _Live!_ host showed once again that some people still don’t know those are two different names for the same healthcare system. “I’m not the biggest fan of Obama so I don’t support him in the Obama things that he’s got going on,” one participant explained after choosing the Affordable Care Act. “I’m actually really excited for President Elect Donald Trump.” Watch the full clip above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4637918/jimmy-kimmel-obamacare-vs-affordable-care-act/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4637918/jimmy-kimmel-obamacare-vs-affordable-care-act/"},"headline":"Watch Jimmy Kimmel Prove People Still Think Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act Are Different Things","datePublished":"2017-01-18T19:44:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:15.716Z","description":"\"One is you pay and then the other one is Obama pays\"","url":"https://time.com/4637918/jimmy-kimmel-obamacare-vs-affordable-care-act/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Obamacare","Television","politics","Affordable Care Act","Healthcare","Jimmy Kimmel","TV"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4637918/jimmy-kimmel-obamacare-vs-affordable-care-act/","name":"Watch Jimmy Kimmel Prove People Still Think Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act Are Different Things"}}]}] ```