Excerpting from Brad Delong:
we have moved from having by far the worst health care financing system in the OECD to a health care financing system that is merely bad by the standards of the OECD…
…People will wake up one morning and realise that the healthcare bill hasn’t brought socialism to America. And … realise we have not magically solved all our healthcare problems. People should calm down a little. There has been a tendency to exaggerate recently.
EconProph 
I think we’ll lose our minds through this debate even though it must happen. Regardless of what’s right, we’ll never be going back to how things were, for better or worse.