Willful Misunderstanding Of Obamacare Politics

I think Scott Lemieux is being willfully too cute by half arguing the minutiae of Obama's and the Democratic party's politics surrounding the ACA and pretending that the entire objection is that Obama "didn't try hard enough" to get a better plan.  I call bullshit.  Lemieux is an entry-level establishment Obama fluffer, so it is not too shocking to see him resorting to disingenuously dismissive posturing while ignoring the underlying truth: since before the titanic failure of Clinton's health care reform initiative, the Democratic party establishment has had no interest in true health care reform, so Obama's shitty health insurance industry welfare plan was not the best political compromise a dedicated POTUS could achieve; instead, it was the desired result all along.  Obama, no more than Clinton, was never committed to any reform that did not benefit the insurance industry.  Surely Lemieux knows this.  He's chosen to do his work on behalf of the same interests as Obama and Clinton.  Being a team player is no virtue if your team fights for the wrong side.