My take on the current stalemate over the Continuing Resolution and Obamacare

As far as I understand, the House has sent several different bills to the Senate, each one with more compromise.
I believe that the last proposal sent over would fund the government, including ObamaCare, for the next year. People can sign up, get coverage, get subsidies and see doctors. The only thing that they change in the law is that if you choose not to buy a policy, the IRS fines for not purchasing one, are waived for a year. This is what, “Delaying the Mandate” refers to. Buy one if you want to; but if you choose to wait and see how it works, you get a one year exemption from punishment just like companies were given by the president. Does not seem unreasonable to me.
They also propose to remove the 71% subsidy for congress that was not part of the law but that the president just added in.  In order not to look like hypocrites Congress included in the law that was passed that they and their staffers had to sign up to get their insurance through the exchanges. Basically that their employer, the federal government, was cancelling their plan. They then would be required to pay for their policies and get whatever subsidy their income qualified them for like everyone else. With the new law, the cost of employer provided plans are going through the roof.  The law says that if an employer were to choose not to buy insurance for their employees then they would be fined. The employer might, in order to keep his employees, want to subsidize what they had to pay on the exchanges but the law makes that illegal. The current House proposal wants the 71% subsidy taken back so that Congress is in the same boat as everyone else. Seems only fair.
If all this is true, and I think that it is, why on earth would Harry Reid and President Obama want to keep the government shut down over these small changes; harming service people, war veterans, vacationers, kids with cancer and many more. Also, why are the Senate and the president getting a pass on this in the press?
Am I missing something here or am I completely wrong about the current proposal?

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