President Obama, appearing in a Vox video interview Friday, was at pains to make the case that he has no specific pride of authorship in his signature health-care law and would be all for seeing it amended or even replaced, if that meant improvement. Even the sobriquet Obamacare, he insisted, is not particularly close to his heart:

“ ‘Keep in mind I’m not the one who named it Obamacare. [Republicans] were the ones who named it Obamacare because what they wanted to do is personalize this and feed on antipathy toward me in their party, as an organizing tool — as politics.’ ” — President Obama

If a “Trumpcare” or an “McConnellcare” came along that genuinely worked better, the president said, “I will be the first one to say, ‘Great. You should’ve told me back in 2009 — I asked.’ I suspect that that will not happen.”