The public funding of elections is almost certainly a necessary first step toward any really meaningful reform in health care (or anything else).
HR 1826, Fair Elections Now Act, was introduced by John Larson, D-CT, and currently has 156 co-sponsors, including Oregon’s Earl Blumenauer, Peter deFazio, and David Wu. The last action taken, however, was almost a year ago, when, like most good ideas, it was being shuffled from one committee to another. Much the same has happened to the similar Senate bill, introduced by Dick Durbin, D-IL, which has 21 co-sponsors, including Jeff Merkley.
Now, Common Cause and Public Campaign have joined forces to launch the Campaign for Fair Elections
Oregon needs fair elections too. Check out what Oregon activists are doing here
And here is why we need publicly funded health care:
Americans spend twice as much as residents of other developed countries on healthcare, but get lower quality, less efficiency and have the least equitable system, according to a recently released report .
The United States ranked last when compared to six other countries — Britain, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand, the Commonwealth Fund report found.