Some Democrats who believed that health care would go away as a political liability are meeting a different reality in their districts. Politico reports on two members of Congress in New Hampshire who are reliving last August, with a new kind of heat:

At a senior center in Manchester Wednesday, one woman turned away when Hodes offered his outstretched hand for an introduction.
“I don’t want to shake your hand. You voted for health care, so just go,” snapped Carmen Guimond, as she refocused on her lunch of roast beef and mashed potatoes and waved him on.
When Hodes decided to stay at the table and launch a defense of what’s considered to be one of the more popular provisions of the law — closing the “donut hole,” a gap in prescription drug coverage for Medicare recipients — she challenged whether he had read the entire bill and dismissed his explanation.
“Two hundred and forty dollars in the first year. That’s all it is,” she said, referring to the initial subsidy. “That’s not much.”
“And over time, by 2020, it closes the donut hole,” Hodes explained.
“We’ll all be dead by then,” she deadpanned.

Colorado’s Betsy Markey, though, waxes confident in a Dan Balz piece this morning that the issue will go away:

What is clear on the ground here is that passage of the health-care law has not stilled the debate. The district is as divided as ever, with Markey and her leading rival jockeying to shape perceptions of how the vote is playing with talk of money raised, e-mails received and activists engaged.
State Rep. Cory Gardner, the front-runner for the Republican nomination, said her vote, coming after her support of climate-change legislation and the economic stimulus, marked “the tipping point” that showed voters that “Congresswoman Markey is out of step.”
After the health-care bill passed, a voter from outside the district sent the Republican’s campaign a contribution with a note: “Please thank Betsy Markey for this check.” When the Denver Post wrote about it, another voter sent a copy of the article along with a donation to Gardner’s campaign with a note: “Again, you can thank Betsy Markey’s health-care vote for this check.”
But Markey, 53, said she does not think the vote puts her in any greater jeopardy and said the issue could fade by November. In the meantime, she said, calls and e-mails to her office have been encouraging. “It’s actually been more positive than I expected,” she said.