What Reform Movement?

In November 2006, Estase wrote a blog entitled "Samson Leftism" where he opined Democrats had no policy objectives, and was told with great pride by someone calling himself Causal that

"[Democrats will] Allow the government to negotiate directly with the pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices for Medicare patients."

was one of Bela Pelosi's great ambitions. However as Oh Blah Blah's health plan has led him to buy off big pharmaceutical, Ryan Grim of the Huffington Post writes,

"Critics on Capitol Hill and online responded with outrage at the report that Obama had gone behind their backs and sold the reform movement short. Furthermore, the deal seemed to be a betrayal of several promises by then-Sen. Obama during the presidential campaign, among them that he would use the power of government to drive down the cost of drugs to Medicare, and that negotiations would be conducted in the open."