Fair Share stands up for an America where everyone gets their fair share, does their fair share and pays their fair share; and where everyone plays by the same rules. We call attention to rules that are rigged to favor the wealthy and powerful, and shine a light on big corporations that cheat the system. We have helped elect leaders who will fight for opportunity for all of us to succeed — and we have let constituents know when decisionmakers stand in the way. 

Some highlights on the issues we’re working on:

Patients deserve price tags. Hospitals can charge wildly different prices for the same service, sometimes even within the same hospital system. Too often, patients only learn what they owe after the procedure. According to research by Johns Hopkins University, the average hospital markup is seven times its cost. MRIs routinely vary from $300 to $3,000 and colonoscopies vary from $1,000 to $10,000. Almost one in five dollars in the U.S. economy is spent on health care. Transparency will immediately help consumers and put pressure on providers to reduce their prices. The bipartisan Patients Deserve Price Tags Act would require hospitals and providers to publish the costs of services upfront so consumers can compare prices, just like they do for any other service.

Keep the Consumer Financial Protection Database online. The mission of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is to identify dangerous and unfair financial practices, educate consumers about these practices and regulate the financial institutions that perpetuate them. To help accomplish these goals, the CFPB created a public complaint database. The database tracks complaints made by consumers to the CFPB and how they are resolved. It enables the CFPB and groups like ours to identify financial practices that threaten to harm consumers and enables the public to evaluate the performance of the financial industry. Given its importance to protecting consumers, we have called on White House Budget Director Russell Vought to keep the agency and the database online.

Momentum is growing on the right to repair.  Many of the items we buy today aren’t built to last. They break, they’re impossible to fix at home and the company that made them wants to charge an arm and a leg for a repair. Oftentimes the manufacturer  tries to convince us that it’s better to buy a new device and forgo repair altogether. It means more cost to consumers, and also means more waste. Americans dispose of 416,000 cell phones per day, and only 15 to 20 percent of electronic waste is recycled. Leaving that e-waste for future generations is unfair, too. Over just the last few years, 10 states have passed Right to Repair legislation — including Texas, California, New York and Kansas. Despite opposition from manufacturers, many other states are advancing policies of their own. From Hawaii to Indiana, Massachusetts to Washington, Right to Repair legislation has attracted bipartisan support as a common-sense reform.

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