It's because they need to work fast before transparency discloses them for what they really are. Not one proposal for health care reform so fare even comes close to addressing the root of the problem which is costs and pricing in health care.

Even Mr. Obama says that the cost of healthcare can do to the country what happened to GM.

Why is the President so reluctant to address true causes other than with lip service? It’s the same old thing in Washington. It's the return on investment of campaign finances and purchasing of access. This is big money for the politicians so they protect their money trees at all cost.

Why do you think some of the most welcome early visitors to the white house after the election were health care industry executives? Certainly it is easy to discover why they were so welcome. The health care industry invested billions over the years in campaign finances. It's business as usual, the purchase of access and loyalty.

What are the health care lobbyists getting in return? Misplaced super loyalty to sustain the windfall profits that will put the US at an impossible to recover competitive disadvantage in the world.

Is their any loyalty left for our Senator and Representative to spread back to the country? Apparently not much. Their silence on the sham health care reform proposals speaks for itself.

They are obviously waiting to see how far they will be pressured to go before they commit to anything. But from the rest of the bought and paid for leadership we get sham proposals that do nothing to address the problem: costs and pricing.

According to Princeton Professor Uwe Reinhardt, an expert in health care economics, with flat economic growth ahead, healthcare can’t go marching on as if nothing has happened.

It is now 18 percent of GDP and projected to be 40 percent by 2050.Every credible expert states flatly that this is unsustainable.

What are the consequences? Health care executives, hospitals, insurance companies, drug companies and fee for service providers will continue to get incredibly rich from the health care reform. For the rest of us who knows?

Our Senator and Representative appear willing to sell the country down the tubes to maintain their sacred money trees.

The cost of health care will displace money away from every other productive growth initiative from the educatation of children which will place the US further behind in global competitiveness.

There are far better models from which we could take some lessons. Europe has a lot more physicians and hospitalizations per capita and takes more medicine. But our prices are much, much higher for the same things.

Why do we rate so low in the world? Maybe it has something to do the money tree and with secret earmarks our Senator and our Representative can deliver to their most important constituents.

Our Senator and our Representative should dress up like Santas Clause every year when they deliver the special pricing schedules to their favorite local hospitals. But beyond the local hospitals they also allow insurance companies to pay 50 diferent prices. They pay every hospital a different price. They pay the same hospital a number of different prices.

Could any of us taxpayers who are saddled with this cost/price calamity actually take a look at this cost/pricing structure? No. It is secret. It’s proprietary.

Why really can’t hospitals post their fees relative to medicare? My God that would be transparency and would disclose the profiteering gifts of our Senator and our Representative.

Even Mr. Shumer said that the insurance industry profits are windfall level mindblowing. Notice any reaction to that from our Senator and our Representative?

This healthcare crisis is so serious that it reaches the level of war. At that level a loyalty to their favored money trees amounts to a virtually treasonous abandonment of the responsibility to protect the country in a time of crisis. Bottom-line Congress is without doubt an accessory to mismanagement and profiteering that will almost certainly destroy the country.

By their silence so far, our Senator and our Representative have shown where their true loyalties lie. Irregardless of how this sickening deal making in Congress comes out, our Senator and our Respresentative should be punished for the cowardly turncoats they are at the polls next time around.