Faux bipartisanship efforts, hestitation and infighting cost Dems to lose the power that was in their hands.    Both Obama's dithering and backroom deal making- and  fractious and uncontrollable Democrats managed to cannabalize themselves even with the advantage of being the majority.

IMO the majority are in a very ant-incumbent mood because they are tired of the members of Congress of both parties strutting around like peacocks and sucking on the corporate teat. They can only agree on legislation that helps their corporate sponsors and the rich who fill their campaign coffers.

Voters aren't happy at all that it may take years to right a wrong.

Don't know where you got that silly idea, except perhaps in the Conservative Movement's dependence on fantasy and wishful thinking.

Government estimates of National Health Expenditures (that is govt. and private spending combined) over the next decade state that $3.6 trillion will be spent on pharmaceuticals.  The "$80 billion in savings" Obama negotiated, in other words, are a 2% reduction from this estimate of future spending.  In exchange, the President promised to continue the ban on Medicare drug price negotiations (The VA system negotiated a 40% discount).

The hospital deal is even worse.  The $155 billion in 10-year savings from the estimated $26 trillion in NHE hospital expenses over that period are a 1/2 of one percent cost reduction.  In exchange for this deal (talk about peppercorn consideration),  the White House agreed to sabotage the public option-- no government plan paying Medicare rates or under the jurisdiction of the HHS Secretary.  Of course DoD's Tricare system isn't controlled by HHS, but I digress.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/health/policy/13health.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all