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Instead WellPoint went along with what turned out to be extremely bad p.r. strategy by the industry to pretend they were on board with reform even though they opposed the core tenets of the legislation.
"We haven't developed a comprehensive strategy for addressing this weakness in our critical infrastructure, " says Congressman Adam Putnam (R-Fla.), who sits on a subcommittee on tech issues.