Still, Obama was frustrated by the traction that his opponents were getting. It drove him up a wall when a group from the consulting firm McKinsey and Company came in and outlined the unconscionable waste, fraud, and market manipulation that had made health care in America the most expensive in the world. Why didn’t people understand that his reform package could save enough to help millions obtain coverage and, in the long run, cut health care spending? “We haven’t communicated this well,” he told me. “They think it will raise their costs and the deficits.”
