For the last several months, much of the Obama administration's healthcare reform strategy has been framed by discussions of the lessons of '93 (when Clinton unsuccessfully rolled out his healthcare reform plan) and '94 (when the Democrats lost Congress).
Last week, I diaried about the administration's (and its supporters') failure to learn the real lesson of '94: don't piss off the base. Today, I'm going to discuss the unlearned lesson of '93: you can't pass real healthcare reform by trying to bring the insurance and pharmaceutical industry on board your reform efforts.