The GOP Fights it's own ideas on healthcare

It appears to me that the Republicans are being obstructionist and going against basic Republican principles to fight the new healthcare law. This article in the LA Times explains how the Conservatives and Republicans for decades have tried to require everyone to buy their own health insurance and have proposed bills to do it. Now that we have a law on the books to do just that, the Republicans are backpedaling. It might be because the healthcare law is called "Obamacare" --even though it incorporates many of the ideas the Republicans have tried to sell.