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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: The Republican alternative to "Obamacare"
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The Republicans don't have an 'alternative' because the basis of 'Obamacare' is the original Republican idea that was instituted in Massachusettes. If memory serves, this was an idea born out of the Heritage institute, a conservative think tank.

They now state that they're problem with it is that it was never meant to be instituted on a Federal scale.