It's a classic example of 'the road to hell with paved with good intentions'.

However I don't believe the people who wrote and passed this bill had good intentions, just the suckers who drunk the kool aid supporting it.

Under President Barack Obama, the national debt has grown by more than $6 trillion, the largest increase under any president in U.S. history.

According to the Treasury Department, the national public debt now stands at $16,687,289,180,215.37. 

On the first day of Obama’s first term, the debt was $10.626 trillion.

Under President George W. Bush, the debt grew $4.9 trillion in eight years.

Presently, the federal government is embroiled in a contentious debate over $85 billion in budget cuts, or 0.005% as a percentage of the national debt.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/03/02/National-Debt-Explodes-6-Trillion-Under-Obama

not sure your getting he cut 4 trillion from the debt.

The debt in 2009 was 11.3 trillion dollars (roughly 36k per person).

The debt today is 16.7 trillion (roughly 53k per person)

The only people who believe this administration has reduced any debt are so far beyond the point of calling them intellectually dishonest that the only label that matters are liars. They are flat out and out liars who need to promote a lie in order to justify their positions. Hence, why politics suck.

The goal is a fully social healthcare system. I believe Vermont is using this bill to create one soon. 

A fully social system would cost less (because your spending per person is ridiculous) and cover more. The current system is, hey why don't we have all the downsides of capitalism but ALSO spend more tax money on it than a regular country would even spend.

The opposition forced the bill to be as weak as it as, but the people who wrote it clearly intended both of those things.

Ditto. I do not like long bills. There is absolutely no reason for a 1,000 page bill except to hide something. The original U.S. Constitution was shorter than 5,000 words, including the signatures.

If I were designing healthcare. I would have made a mandate for individual states to either create a single payer policy to act as a minimum coverage policy, or to pass a referendum exempting their state from the law. It would take less than one page.

I didn't mean the USA's debt. I meant the debt people get from going to a private hospital because they are massively ripped off by pharmaceutical corporations. Leaving healthcare to the free market is a disaster for people's health. 

It will stay pretty similar to what it is now, but I hope that they can make a unified health care system.