Did the deals that industry stakeholders have made with Obama administration on health reform reflect in the president’s speech last night? Health insurers took the brunt of Obama’s attack, while the hospital and pharmaceutical industries — who have agreed to a combined $225 billion in cost savings over 10 years — were barely mentioned, notes Bloomberg . “Those deals obviously paid off tonight,” an analyst with Pali Capital LLC told Bloomberg. “I didn’t hear a peep about drug costs. I heard them talk about hospital infection rates, but there was nothing in this that would be negative for the hospitals that wasn’t already known.” Wellpoint, a large health insurer, said

Obama continued his “mischaracterization” of the industry by ignoring how medical costs are growing. “We are disappointed that the President stopped short of addressing health care reform,” a Wellpoint spokeswoman wrote to our colleague Avery Johnson. “In order to implement sustainable, responsible health care reform, we must address the escalating costs and uneven quality of our health care delivery system as well as reform health insurance practices.” Humana chief Mike McCallister also pointed to cost control as “the key to meaningful health reform and overall deficit reduction,” in an e-mail he sent to Johnson.

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Industry Winners, Losers in Obama Health Care Speech