What "health care reform" turned into, Bobert, was a financial windfall for the private health insurance industry, and they ARE one of the "Big Boys". This is how you take the public's hunger for real change and turn it into a quasi-change that simply improves the position of the elites who benefited from the previous system that was in place...that is, the private health insurers.

Pretty much smoke and mirrors as far as I can see. Obama had to bring in some sort of new health plan, because he made it the centerpiece of his campaign....so the corporate elites worked on that legislation with their lobbying power until it was fashioned in a way that suited them, while the rest of the developed world, most of which already has universal single-payer health insurance, watched in utter amazement, dumfounded at the reactionary forces at play in America.