death spiral

noun

(in pair skating) a dramatic movement in which the man spins his partner around him in a gradually increasing radius while he spins in place, holding the extended arm of the woman, who revolves around him on one skate with the other leg stretched out and gradually lowers herself backward until she is just above the ice surface.

Without those subsidies, the worst-case scenario has Obamacare entering a fiscal death spiral.

In 2008, it was looking at a death spiral: cut credit ratings, claims on the policies, and collateral calls.

This is the big enchilada, and the culmination of the alleged death spiral.

This is the notorious "death spiral" that Obamacare critics warned about from the start.

One look at today's health exchange prices suggests that the death spiral is already beginning.

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