In thinking about how health care reform went so far off the tracks both in 1993 under Bill Clinton and in 2009, under President Obama, one can reason the Clinton’s went too far in their micro involvement in the details of reform.
Now, in retrospect, Obama has done the exact opposite — he has simply not become involved enough throughout the process, leaving it all to Harry Reid and other weaker players on Capitol Hill.
There’s a middle ground of hands-on involvement and leadership that neither Clinton nor Obama achieved.