The reason something is being done about healthcare

As the health care bill moves toward a critical vote in the Senate, the five senators charged with overseeing the floor debate count health interests among their biggest campaign contributors . . .

In all, health care interests have donated more than $2.5 million to [Sen. Max] Baucus' fundraising committees since 2005 . . .

Health care interests also dominate contributions to Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the top Republican on the Finance Committee, giving more than $1.3 million to the five-term senator between 2005 and this year. . . .

Other lawmakers controlling the health care floor debate:

• Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., who has received $210,050 this year from health-related political action committees, his No. 3 source of PAC money. Dodd served temporarily as chairman of the Senate health committee this year.

• Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, the new chairman of the Senate health panel, received $66,000 from health care PACs this year, more than any other sector and twice the amount he received from agribusiness, an important industry in his home state.

• Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., has received $27,000 from health care political action committees this year, more than any other industry. Health PACs donated nearly $289,000 in 2008, his last election. He is the top Republican on the Senate health committee.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-12-21-health-care-PAC-money-senators_N.htm

Liberal and conservative, left and right, Democratic and Republican, they're all on the take.

That's the real reason they're working on healthcare "reform".