What's got everyone so down?

[Vepres]

No, because unlike you, most of us care that millions of poor people will now die to lack of health care.

I don't know about other places, but the Boulder and Denver areas are filled with charities and the like for everything, including healthcare. Perhaps it's because we actually have competent local governments (Hickenlooper!).

Millions is a huge exaggeration. Only about 10 million of the uninsured are not eligible for a public plan or not health young adults. Now, if you remove alcoholics, smokers, and drug abusers from that, plus those involved in accidents and/or stupid behavior, I doubt the number would break 50k. (which is large, but in the big picture it's not as bad as some make it out to be) I bet more people die from obesity related disease than lack of coverage.

Besides, if Democrats REALLY wanted this to go through, they'd  have find a way to get it through. If the Democrats had been competent, Brown would not have won. Really, the Republicans only had power because the Democrats let them have power.

[Vepres]

The realization our antiquated political system seems incapable of getting anything done, and that we are pretty much stuck with what we have because any far-reaching attempt to reform it will likely end in failure.  Hell, if we can't reform our health care system, we most certainly cannot reform our political system through a constitutional convention (assuming we even get that far).

In other words, we're witnessing the slow death of America as a constitutional republic, paralyzed by inertia.  

Or Democrats or incompetent, one of the two

[Vepres]

This is all good in the long run. Maybe a third party will get seats in congress