Neither Congress nor the President (as demonstrated time and time again in the last few months), AIG (which WE own and yet they spit in our faces awarding millions to their employees and partying in England and in Arizona) nor managed care companies (who have their PRIMARY loyalty to their stock holders and employers) have any real ACCOUNTABILITY to you - the rank and file of America - the shareholders in AIG and the health care consumer.

All of these failed parties have good reason to forget about you. Congress and the President (except at times of election) are in bed with special interest groups that hold the cash. Why should AIG be concerned with you OR a pathetic Congress and Executive Branch? They can conduct business as usual and answer essentially to no one. Managed care companies continue to thrive by creating the appearance of efficiency when, in fact, they have failed- health care costs soar annually and the government run Medicare program (hardly a model of efficiency) is cheaper and more efficient! Yipes!

You are a complication, but not the real customer. Managed care administrators figure out how to squeeze YOU, the health care consumer, not with efficiencies, but with cost cutting in the wrong places (like shafting primary care doctors who could actually save money or nickel and diming docs on immunizations so that many lose money) and increasing deductibles and co-pays so that you will be less inclined (let alone in these economic times even able) to buy the life saving services that you and your family might need..

Is it any wonder then that you are treated so poorly as a managed care insured? Are you really surprised that your already disenfranchised doctor feels less accountable to you and more a shackled servant to the myriad of rules, paperwork and bureaucracy that managed care insurance companies have sewn into a noose and slipped around his/her neck?

They are all accountable to more powerful forces than just you alone - your life, family and soul. They answer to cash. And you??? You are a nuisance, a vehicle to facilitate greed and incompetence - not the master as you should be. You are to be herded through the health care system and managed care- totally ineffective to begin with- is using the cattle prod. This is why UNLESS health reform addresses the imbalance, it WILL fail America and fail you. Whether you are to the left or right, whether you believe in a national health care system or purely a private enterprise model, you must fight to gain control of your own body, your mind and your health. This could be THE epic struggle.