Should Obama Compromises Cause Defeat of Healthcare Reform? I Don't Think So!

It's so interesting to watch how many folks want President Obama to already have fixed all that is wrong in our country after only six months on the job.
He (with help from the Democratic Congress) have accomplished much so far, including pass a stimulus package that (at least) has stalled the downturn caused by the failed policies of George W. Bush and Republicans in Congress.
Now our president is trying to pass a robust health insurance reform that will cover most, if not everyone, and will curb some of the most abusive practices of the insurance industry, including denying coverage due to pre-existing conditions and the right to deny, or even end, coverage under the power of "recission."
Granted, Barack Obama, as a candidate for the office that he now holds, made a series of promises that involved keeping lobbyists out of White House deliberations and, in addition, called for the government to be able to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical concerns.
Now that the president and his men have negotiated an $80 million deal with pharmaceutical concerns in exchange for the dropping the ability of government to negotiate with pharma companies to lower prescription drug costs, he has caught fire from lots of folks who thought he wouldn't break that promise.
One former Clinton administration official, Robert Reich, even said the Obama deal "undermines democracy."
But really, is this really undermining democracy what we're talking about? Or is it really breaking campaign promises what we're talking about?
Yes, Obama did say those things on the campaign trail, but once he became president, did anyone really think that he was going to emerge from the health care battle with legislation that was so perfect that folks on the progressive side would be able to climb on their cars in sheer celebration?
The way Congress works and given the massive donations many in Congress have received from insurance company and pharmaceutical concerns, the chances of the most perfect bill in the universe passing Congress were, at best, very slim.
I'd like to know more details about what the Obama administration GOT in legislative concessions from Big Pharma to go on top of the $80 million pledged and the additional $150 million Big Pharma is pouring into an advertising campaign calling for passage of the legislation.
The concessions the president has made are painful enough, but given the choice of even the compromise legislation Congress is about to pass or passing nothing at all while 47 million Americans go without health insurance (among other things), I'd rather have that little something, even if it means making some painful compromises to get it.
I'd like to know that I will not be discriminated against due to pre-existing conditions and if I have to go to the hospital for some major surgery or something else, no insurance company will be able to deny me coverage under any "recission" rights. I'd also like to be able to choose between a bunch of coverages with a public option that would be available if I could no afford to have health care from private insurance concerns.
That's the least I want from the legislation that Congress passes, and if that's all Congress does, I'd say "dayenu," (Hebrew for "that is sufficient.").