Reply #69: That Obama had cut a deal with Big Insurance was OBVIOUS last summer

[Vinnie From Indy]

The only explanantion for the trajectory of HCR since Obama's inauguration was that a deal had been struck. The deal was that Obama would PUBLICLY campaign for a PO knowing that he would NEVER see an HCR bill with one hit his desk for signature.

It also seems that Obama's choice to promise Big Insurance that there would be no public option in private while campaigning on a PO turns out to have been a mistake. Obama is learning that in these times, it is next to impossible to serve two masters - the American public AND Big Insurance, Big Pharma, Big Energy, Wall Street and the rest. Obama needs to take to heart that he is only getting one shot at history and his cynical, backroom dealings, business as usual politics in Washington insures he has a failed Presidency.