Perhaps you should research a little more. Here's from another member of the Heritage Foundation, in a
2006 article supporting the idea of health insurance exchanges:
Short of congressional action to reform the tax code, the burden to improve health coverage rests with state officials. The best way to enable individuals and families to buy, own, and keep health insurance from job to job-without losing the tax advantages of the employment-based coverage-is to transform the balkanized and dysfunctional state health insurance market into a single health insurance market. This new market would function well for all sorts of individuals and small businesses, not just workers employed by large companies.
And how about those "pre-existing conditions?
Here's a link to a page that links to "The Bush Plan" (from George H. W. Bush):
Less than two decades later, in what remains an unexplored chapter of health care history, a surprising supporter of the individual mandate was George H.W. Bush. According to contemporaneous reporting, Bush used "the tax system to 'encourage and empower' individuals to buy health insurance and would enact insurance market reforms that make it possible for everyone -- even if they have pre-existing health problems -- to get insurance." In short: individuals would be mandated to buy catastrophic health insurance. The cost of that coverage would be tied to income, meaning that the poorer you were, the less expensive your policy would be.
Here's a link to the .pdf file itself - the pertinent quote is found at the bottom of page 25 of the document.
So...that's the individual mandate, the health insurance exchanges, the coverage of pre-existing conditions all supported by the cognoscenti of the GOP long before any of us ever heard of Obama. Got anything else?