I love the line about being in the hip pocket of the insurers. Would that make Obama hiding in the zipper of the unions? Amazing how some groups are forced to comply with Obama's plan but anyone who puts cash in his party's coffers gets a meeting with him and then comes out with an exemption.
If you want reform, put everything on the table - this means addressing the expensive malpractice insurance due to those "evil, greedy" trial lawyers. The left points out the insurers but misses out on the fat cats driving up things like malpractice insurance. You see, the left picks their demons - it's all about the ones who pick up large profits and salaries. but in making that statement, they forget that those racking up in cash are on their side as well. Check out the homes and cars the big union bosses have. Or the trial lawyers. Etc. Etc. Give the full issue a hearing - just as Obama promised - open, everything on the table, televised. You won't see it happen.
Their goal is to pad their supporters' way of life and slowly bleed the opponents' way of life. Their healthcare, climate change, and other plans do everything to bleed out a free market system and prop up their side's support.