As near as I can tell, Republicans have offered compromise after compromise, while the Obamacrats keep up with the same old, 'My way or the highway'.
You know, I just cannot see it. Medicare has some serious complications that were well articulated during the 2008 campaign. These complications are so serious that they're honestly worth compromising over, in order to fix. Obamacare was passed without fixing these complications, but I find it boggling that no Republicans were willing to cross the aisle in order to implement Obamacare that included a fixing of Medicare.
Seriously, a serious compromise effort could really have created a much larger fix (of a much worse problem) whilst getting some type of novel healthcare legislation passed. It's just very frustrating. There was a boggling lack of crossing the aisle to fix the actual problem.