I think everyone's being a little over dramatic.

The bill removed a whole bunch of ways that insurance companies can fuck you over. Like not insuring you due to pre-existing conditions, instituting lifetime caps, dropping you for no reason, etc. In my opinion, there's a lot of good there.

In return, if you do not purchase insurance, you have to pay a tax to the IRS. Which in 2014 will be $95 per adult. This is because there will be people who will want to wait to get insurance until they are sick, because the insurance companies will have to give it to them regardless. That is unless health insurance will cost someone more than 8% of their income, and then this fee is not applied.

This is not end of the world type stuff, people.