Stubbornly carrying out the will of the majority of Americans who; in elections, polls and town halls were screaming, "Kill this bill and start over."
Well I would say the (very narrow) majority of Americans who disapprove of the health care bill as one whole piece of legislation known as "Obamacare" do so because they believe what the Republicans have said about it. Death panels, government takeover of your doctor's office, massive tax increases on the middle class, massive cuts to medicare, scary socialism, etc.
When you take out the main provisions individually, the majority of Americans(close to 60% in some polls) support health care reform.
Not a damn person would approve of it if it were how the right characterized it, and not a damn person, myself included would approve of things like the cornhusker kickback(though much worse was done to get votes under Republicans).
What the Republicans have done is use scare tactics, falsehoods and embellishment of the ugly parts of the process(again, inexcusable but present in almost all legislation) to tag the whole effort with a toxic label.
I do not let the Democrats off without blame here. I never heard a one of them, until very recently, go out and say "health care reform is good, and should pass because of x, y and z specific provisions that will be helpful to your families." No repetition of the main, good points of the bill, just talking in broad terms about a bill that had already been framed by the Republicans over the summer of 2009.
My frustration with the Dems now runs deep in that, with the right amount of control over their message, health care reform could have been passed in summer 2009 and we could have moved on to other important issues.
Safe to say no one calls me up before these decisions are made, though!!