We watched and listened intently for seven hours yesterday as President Obama and a number of Senate and House lawmakers discussed Health Care Reform and the Health Care Reform bills generated by Congress.

What was apparent to us is that everyone in the room agreed that health care needs to be reformed. What also was apparent to us was that our lawmakers are at an impasse on how to deal with this most complex issue. At the continual urging of President Obama to deal with issues, many wanted to scrap a year’s worth of work and start over - our tax dollars being wasted again.

Why do some people in Congress continue to ignore the fact that health insurance companies made record profits in their last reporting quarter while covering less people? Where is the Accountability when CEO’s of these companies are making hundreds of millions of dollars in salaries, bonuses and stock options? Where is the Transparency so that all of us know what is happening with lawmakers and who is influencing them?

In the two weeks prior to the Health Care Summit over 3,000 registered lobbyists were “working” Washington - that’s six lobbyists for every lawmaker. This gives us some insight as to the impasse and the ineffective process we continue to see from Washington in dealing with the major issues facing our country. As President Obama stated, the American people don’t much care about the process of Congress, they care about results!