...as you said, you are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.
If you never heard the many of the precepts, particularly the concept of the individual mandate, were founded, suggested and advocated by the Heritage Foundation, then I suggest you are simply ill-informed. The concept of the individual mandate, the notion that everyone MUST have their own health insurance, purchased from private companies, is the crux of the ACA is very much a conservative idea.
If you have never seen this on the Internet, then you are either spending all of your time on political porn sites (Klein Online / world net daily being one of the biggest and baddest of political porn sites) or simply have yet to master Google (I'm sure your local community college has a class)... or you can challenge me, I will hit you with a ton cites (want more?)
Ironic challenge: Affordable Care Act's principles were originally conservative | PennLive.com
How the Heritage Foundation, a Conservative Think Tank, Promoted the Individual Mandate - Forbes
Health insurance mandate began as a Republican idea - The Boston Globe
The Tortuous History of Conservatives and the Individual Mandate - Forbes
http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=4896&type=0
Of course, whatever the Heritage Foundation failed to provide you can thank the last Republican candidate for President in helping to fill in the blanks with the successful implementation of the ACA prototype in Massachusetts.
If ObamaCare Is So Bad, How Does RomneyCare Survive? - Forbes
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/11/15/us/politics/comparing-two-health-care-laws.html?_r=0
The Baccus "authorship" of the ACA is no more original than any states "authorship" of legislation that was given to it by ALEC. Sorry, any Democrat that claims ownership of the intellectual property of Affordable Care Act is guilty of plagiarism.