health care reform, a sick democracy and a cure - public financing!

OK I gotta rant a little about the health care reform situation.

After all this debate we have 2,000 pages in the house up for a vote in a matter of days, no Republicans are expected to vote for it and no one knows if enough Dems will vote for it.

We are the only industrialized nation in the world that has this level of dysfunction regarding health care and insurance companies. The fact is our democracy is sick and until we make it better we will never solve problems like health care.

Money controls our politics. The health care industry has spent 400,000,000 dollars lobbying to prevent real health care reform. Corporate profits are in the way of affordable health care for all. And our government officials have drafted a 2,000 page bill that benefits the corporations more than the citizens of this country.

This bill, according to Nancy Pelosi is going to provide 50 million new costumers to the insurance companies, many of which will be subsidized by tax payer dollars while the public option will only have an anticipated 6 million people who will qualify and sign up by 2019!

This whole situation is proving that our democracy is deathly ill.

Another example: every single Republican boycotted the mark up of a Climate Change Bill and our government just may destroy the chance of the world coming together successfully in Denmark in December in what many say is the last chance for a real international protocol to be effective.

The cure: PUBLIC FINANCING for campaigns. If we want politicians who are answerable to US and not the drug companies, wall street banks, oil and coal companies and military contractors then we need to have publicly financed election campaigns. Take the money out of politics. Most democracies in the world do it this way and we must if we want our government back!!!!!