I Need Help in Understanding PPACA

In case you are not familiar with the PPACA it stands for Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It is referred to as Obamacare by most conservatives or opponents. In Missouri, nearly every political ad for the primaries that are coming up have a conservative talking about how they will oppose Obamacare.

The thing that I really have a hard time understanding is when did this conservative proposal for health care reform become so distasteful to ... conservatives? I even wonder if these politicians know that it was a conservative think tank that came up with many of the ideas that are a part of the dreaded Obamacare. I wonder if they know that Republicans in Congress once backed the ideas that are included in the dreaded Obamacare. I know that the Republican candidate for the presidency once liked it enough to implement most of the ideas in reform for his state, but now says that it won't work nationally.

I just can't understand when or why these once conservative ideas became so ... liberal, just because they were proposed and enacted by the Democrats. I would have thought that the Republicans would have jumped all over that and taken credit for it at the time! They could have said, "Finally! We've been wondering when you guys would see the light! We will gladly support OUR ideas for health care reform!"

Unfortunately, when your only goal is to make sure that the president doesn't get re-elected, you have to oppose all of his ideas--even if they were once your ideas, I guess.

So, for everybody that opposes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, please tell me why. Tell me if you supported it when it was a conservative idea and what changed your mind. Tell me if you oppose it because it took place as Obamacare and you were completely ignorant of its origin. Tell me how a proposal developed in a conservative think tank, once backed by Republicans in Congress, implemented by a Republican governor (and soon to be Republican Presidential Candidate) and upheld as Constitutional by a Republican led Supreme Court gets to be major talking point in a negative way among conservative candidates for any public office.

I am so confused.
Please help.

John <><