You might have forgotten what US healthcare was like before the ACA. The ACA was good. It successfully bent the cost curve and now you don't immediately get banned from health insurance for life if you get cancer.
> Romneycare
It's called that because the Democratic legislature forced him to pass it, not because he liked it.
It was modeled fairly directly on a proposal drafted as a federal alternative to the Clinton healthcare plan by lobbyists for the insurance industry and embraced by Republican national leadership in that context (which they then stopped talking about once the Clinton plan went down in flames.)
> Romneycare
It's called that because the Democratic legislature forced him to pass it, not because he liked it.