[guimarin]

This is hardly surprising though. The current democratic leadership is full of double-talkers and the republicans are completely owned by special interests.

The only way to get something done would be to throw more money at lobbyists than content and pharma. But that is not likely as in Pharma's case the current system is what keeps them in business. Gov't pays for research, pharma picks it up, hides the flaws, markets it to the public then heavily markets against themselves when their patents expire. No sonny, this is regulatory capture at its finest and if you care about software/technology patent reform you have to figure out how to reframe the debate so protected and well funded industries are no longer effected.

[bnolsen]

you must live in some wierd fantasy world, but sorry the dems are totally owned by special interests. some of the old guard republicans are also similar.

follow the money, the dems reek of special interest.

[georgemcbay]

Both parties are almost completely owned by special interests at this point (in many cases by the same special interests!), though there are a few "exceptions that prove the rule" on either side of the aisle.

It makes me laugh when someone with ideological allegiance to one side or the other points out how corrupt the "other guys" are and either disingenuously doesn't mention or just plain stupidly doesn't notice the same problem for those on their "side".

This is a big part of the reason I support MayOne (https://mayone.us). The odds are stacked against them, but meaningful and broad campaign finance reform is the only thing that is going to fix the now incredibly broken US government and give non-corporations any meaningful voice in future legislation, and I have yet to see any better plan on how to make it happen.