Both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have tried to claim the high ground as Medicare’s number one defender. But health care isn’t all about the election, despite politics’ seeming ability to draw every sector into its gravitational pull.  The most significant stories in health care from the past two months haven’t come from the campaign trail – where candidates have mostly rehashed their existing policies – but from the private sector, as employers and providers have made aggressive, and sometimes unexpected, deals and changes. Reforms that will continue regardless of who’s sitting in the Oval Office next year according to a recent report at California Healthline.