If the President really cared about helping the average person get health care more than getting along with the rich and powerful, we would not be seeing this headline:
Healthcare bills lack protections against treatment denials, experts say
Basically what the story says is that denial of care by insurance companies is not blocked by any of the bills before Congress. The details of the story are diaried here.
If Obama's rhetoric about "change you can believe in" really was more than an empty slogan, wouldn't he (and his staff) make sure that denial of needed care by the insurance industry was made illegal? Just asking...