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This Wall Street Journal editorial lays it out. It begins:
A lot of spleens are being vented about the pending change in the system, but this lays out what are, to me, the real reasons to oppose the Senate and House bills. After the law is enacted (and i do think it will be) the debate will continue and we will all try to adjust. I just think it is a shame.
From a purely personal standpoint, I am sorry to see the industry to which I have devoted my professional life moving closer and closer to becoming a public utility. I know many here see that differently, but that's how it looks to me.
From a more partisan standpoint, this Weekly Standard piece by Matthew Continetti summarizes the history of the legislation and pretty much lists all the reasons why it outrages so many people. His concluding paragraphs:
I think I need to go sing a hymn! 
With the House's climactic vote on ObamaCare tomorrow, Democrats are on the cusp of a profound and historic mistake, comparable in our view to the Smoot-Hawley tariff and FDR's National Industrial Recovery Act. Everyone is preoccupied now with the politics, but ultimately at stake on Sunday is the kind of country America will be.
The consequences of this bill will not only be destructive for the health-care system and the country's fiscal condition, though those will be bad enough. Inextricably bound up in a plan as far-reaching and ambitious as ObamaCare are also larger questions about the role of government, the dynamism of American enterprise and the nature of a free society. Above anything else, this explains why Democrats have had such trouble convincing the public, let alone their own Members.
The consequences of this bill will not only be destructive for the health-care system and the country's fiscal condition, though those will be bad enough. Inextricably bound up in a plan as far-reaching and ambitious as ObamaCare are also larger questions about the role of government, the dynamism of American enterprise and the nature of a free society. Above anything else, this explains why Democrats have had such trouble convincing the public, let alone their own Members.
From a purely personal standpoint, I am sorry to see the industry to which I have devoted my professional life moving closer and closer to becoming a public utility. I know many here see that differently, but that's how it looks to me.
From a more partisan standpoint, this Weekly Standard piece by Matthew Continetti summarizes the history of the legislation and pretty much lists all the reasons why it outrages so many people. His concluding paragraphs:
One cannot judge the full consequences of health care reform. What can be judged is the manner by which Democrats have governed over the last year. They have been partisan and ideological, derisive and dismissive. They try to legislate massive changes to American society and the American economy by the tiniest of margins and the most arcane of methods. The process has taken on a substance all its own.
And it’s repellent.
And it’s repellent.
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