Although I share your concerns about the potential pitfalls of health care reform, I'm relieved that we're at least addressing the problem. We have by far the least efficient health care system in the world. It needs reform, as at the moment our system has managed to combine the worst of both socialist and market systems.
I personally don't particularly care whether we reform in the direction of planned health care or market health care, but the current system is a total cluster****:
Note that this is from 2001 and 2002, most disparities have widened considerably since then.