What's Wrong with America:

Paul Kane reports in today's Washington Post that "30 key lawmakers helping draft landmark health-care legislation have financial holdings in the industry, totaling nearly $11 million worth of personal investments." The actual amount of their holdings could be much higher as "congressional financial disclosure forms … require reporting of only broad ranges of holdings rather than precise values of assets."

In other words, the very people we hope will create a fair system of health care have a vested interest in maintaining the current status quo. Federal lawmakers have the best health care in the world, paid for by the American taxpayers. Now we learn that they are becoming filthy rich from an industry devoted to exploiting the very people who have placed them into office.