Health "Reform" Shows Need for Public Financing of Elections

How to deal with the right wing town hall Brown Shirt thugs. Medical industry's co-option of reform legislation dramatizes the dire need for public financing of congressional elections. Guests are U.S. Public Interest Research Group's Campaign finance advocate Lisa Gilbert and Healthcare Advocate Larry McNeely talking about the role of insurance money in the current fight and the status of the public campaign finance bill. Late in show, anonymous genius from Minnesota calls and regales us with brilliant encyclopedic knowledge of the U.S. healthcare system. Recession ending this summer but unemployment up (247,000) to 9.7% and years long recovery expected. Real rate (U6) dips to 16.5%.