It isn't all bad though, there have been some very good things come of this. No longer having lifetime limits has been a massive blessing for some people. Previously uninsurable people now have insurance like a friend of mine who had breast cancer four times. I have family friends who worked but couldn't get insurance through their employer who now do.
Yes. There is good. Insurance companies can no longer have a cut off point to which they insure you. They can no longer drop you for frivolous reasons, as per PP with the car crash. There are lots of horror stories of people getting dropped because insurance would find a loop hole. If you didn't like your insurance you couldn't switch and get covered due to "pre-existing conditions", you were stuck with the one you had or letting your own problem fester for 6 months to a year before they covered it.
Our insurance system does need a massive overhaul, and insurances needed to be cracked down on for corrupt practices. But the way this has been implemented isn't necessarily the way it should have been done.
The silver lining is that it's in now, and no matter what party is put into office, they can only refine from there. No one that doesn't want to commit career suicide is going to yank away insurance that people already have.
Our system is a mess, we're in over our heads in a debt crisis to fund what we need, and we're not fully out of a recession quite yet. It's going to be painful while we figure out how to take care of 316 million people, a good chunk of whom are elderly, and not to be insensitive but they're not putting back into the system to keep the money freshly circulating to sustain this. We have a massive baby boomer population that is just dying. From a moral stand point we absolutely need to take care of them. From a financial stand point they're a money suck, and they are the biggest generation of old people our country has seen so far.