The more I read about the Health Care Reform bill, the more I like it. It's not everything it oughta be but in this political climate, and with the Dem's 60 vote majority including folks like Lieberman and Ben Nelson, it ain't too shabby. There's a chart over at the bottom of this page that summarizes some of the good things to come out of it, particularly as compared to doing nothing, which appears to have been the alternative. I'd also refer you to this piece by Ezra Klein which answers some of the more strident (and not completely unfounded) complaints from the Left. I do think a lot of the critics of the plan are simply caught up in the act of believing their own lies or misunderstandings.
I'm also hopeful that the reform won't stop with this bill. One matter that always rankled me was that Obama had, once upon a time, pledged to reopen the pharmaceutical marketplace to foreign reimports. That's where you and I get to buy medications for the same, lower price that Canadians pay for products manufactured in the same labs to the same specifications. That pledge was forgotten when it came time to get the major pharmaceutical companies on board for the current reform…and perhaps that was necessary. But the White House is making noises like they're going to revisit the issue and that's nice to hear.