I promised myself that I would never start another political thread on the medhelp forum and this is not political, since it does not favor or criticize one party over another.
If you want to understand why we can't seem to fix health care and why we can't fix the securities industry, even after they almost brought the entire world down, see who the largest contributors are to any member of our government you choose.
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/index.php