Healthcare reform is giving me a headache

So before everyone jumps at me for even mentioning healthcare, this isn't as much of an opinion of what should be done over healthcare (although honestly, I am not happy with the bill because of the lack of things that it accomplishes) as a response to how ridiculous the process of passing anything at all has gotten.  To start off the collection of links that I've assembled that constitutes my "research" about all of this, here's my favorite so far from the Washington Post.  This article gets to the heart of the matter, in my opinion:  we have reached the point where the minority party in the government can prevent any sort of effective governance from the majority.  Moving along the same logic as the Post article, the minority party now believes that they have both the power and motivation to stop the majority from being able to implement any type of policy whatsoever.

And so now we have almost half of the government determined to make the other half fail at anything they attempt,  and individuals with the power to stop the entire legislative process for no reason other than to assure a large benefit for themselves.  Hopefully the public will wake up at some point and realize that the hyper-polarization of the country has made progress impossible (so long as the Democrats also turn to the brand of politics that the Republicans are playing with when they regain the majority, whenever that may be), and made a supermajority both a prerequisite to legislative success as well as a weapon for any individual with a desire for gain.

Unfortunately, my opinion on the bill ends up like that of Howard Dean by the end of the debate, making it clear to me that the burdens of the current legislative process are leading to less results and slower progress for the country.