Here is a rebuttal to the notion that ObamaCare is the brainchild of the GOP.

In "comments" to this blog,  I found this challenge:

AnonymousApr 4, 2012 10:32 AM

The Heritage Foundation's 1989 report is considered to be the conceptual origin of the health insurance mandate. The core of the Affordable Care Act was an idea floated by President Nixon in 1974, touted by the Heritage Foundation in 1989, introduced by Newt Gingrich in 1993 and implemented by Mitt Romney in 2005.

Now that Obama has made it law... it's SOCIALISM!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6DrH6P9OC0

The concept of the individual health insurance mandate is considered to have originated in 1989 at the conservative Heritage Foundation. In 1993, Republicans twice introduced health care bills that contained an individual health insurance mandate. Advocates for those bills included prominent Republicans who today oppose the mandate including Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Charles Grassley (R-IA), Robert Bennett (R-UT), and Christopher Bond (R-MO). In 2007, Democrats and Republicans introduced a bi-partisan bill containing the mandate.

My response: 
Of course, "Anonymous"  is a character descending upon this blog from Media Matters or MoveOn.org. This piece of literature has shown up on other blogs, as well. It is hardly original.

A few questions: The first and most important is this - "So what?"

A second question: "Are you saying that 'we' cannot change our mind?"

Third, why was the Heritage [so-called] model written up in only a few [nine] pages while ObamaCare began as a 2,700 page bill that no one read,  and will be 100,000 pages when finally and fully written sometime after 2014?    How is it  that Anonymous thinks the two are the same? Why is it that Anonymous thinks this is even possibly true.

A fourth consideration is embedded in the following: if our side is responsible for the law as written by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, it appears that our side is best qualified to amend its inadequacies -- since it wasn't your idea, anyway.

Fifth,  if this bill is modeled from Heritage,  why did Pelosi tell us that we would not know what is in the bill until after it passes into law? 

Sixth,  does Anonymous not know that Obama opposed the individual mandate in debates with Hillary Clinton,  back in 2008?  

The readership should know that this argument,  written by Anonymous in ‘comments’ above,  is a developing theme by the Democrats in their effort to confuse the facts of the argument.  It was nowhere around – as a popular  Democrat response – five weeks ago.  

Finally,  the conservative revolution had its beginnings in 2009 in response to the Stimulus union payback bill and the developing storm that is known as ObamaCare.  The Republican members cited in the ‘comments’ above,  were “Establishment,” in 2007.  Today,  tea-party conservatives control the narrative within the GOP.  It is they who are opposed to idiocy that is the health care bill.  I don’t care who – within the GOP – supported the writing of a bill that doubles or triples the size of the federal government.  I don’t care.