huffingtonpost.com - 6/1/2009
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Sen. Max Baucus got some not-so friendly advice from his Montana constituents last week as he works to reform the health care system: You're doing it all wrong. Baucus, the chair of the Finance Committee and the leader of reform efforts in the Senate, scheduled 20 town hall meetings with ...
huffingtonpost.com - 5/28/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
The push to include a public health care
option as part of a system-wide overhaul benefited from...
two major boosts Wednesday. Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the chairman of the Finance Committee and lead health care negotiator, is "fighting tooth and nail ...
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Nelson Flips On Public Health Care, Baucus Will Fight For It
whitehouse.gov - 6/3/2009
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whitehouse.gov —
The meeting that we held today was very
productive and I want to commend you for your...
leadership -- and the hard work your Committees are doing on health care reform, one of the most urgent and important challenges confronting us as a Nation
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Letter from President Obama to Chairmen Edward M. ...
whitehouse.gov - 6/3/2009
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Political Animal —
... for same-sex couples over the weekend. * When I saw that Sen. Max Baucus' (D) constituents were angry about his handling of health care reform, I was afraid they wanted him to be more conservative. As it turns out, the opposite is true . * Reminder: Saudi Arabia ...
Insurance/Pharma Trying to Pull Trigger on Public Health Option
Firedoglake —
... 1. Allow a public insurance plan option only after some triggering event (e.g., the failure of the industry to meet its cost-reduction goals which it sort-of promised to Obama). That's industry's fallback position, and it's supported by (apparently) Sen. Baucus and other centrists, and is being pushed by Sens. Grassley and Snowe. HuffPo's Ryan Grim reports that Baucus' aides recently got hammered at hometown meetings in Montana over his refusing to allow single-payer advocates from participating and for fronting for industry proposals. ...
Obama on Health Reform Offensive
Daily Kos —
... This is the backdrop against which the Senate Finance and Health committees begin to do the real work of hammering out the details of a legislative proposal this week. On that front, there are a few things to keep an eye on. Tomorrow Senators Sanders and Baucus will meet with single-payer activists. Baucus got an earful from his Montana constituents last week in a series of health care town meetings. Whethere Baucus's willingness to meet with Sanders and his single-payer supporters is a sign of being softened up a bit by that criticism and signals at least a willingness to ...
Ignoring Its Own Reporting, NYT Can’t Find Any Supporters of a Public Health Plan Option
Firedoglake —
... , Max Baucus has been forced repeatedly to say that a public plan is "still on the table," and at recent home-state meetings, his constituents pounded him for excluding single payer and selling out to the insurance industry. ...
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huffingtonpost.com 9/1/2009 — HELENA, Mont. — U.S. Sen. Max Baucus of Montana says a health care overhaul will happen this year even if Republicans back out of bipartisan talks under growing public pressure and that the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy could help hold together ...
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time.com 3/26/2009 — Among Democrats, Max Baucus is known mostly for his apostasies. So crucial was the Montana Senator to passing George W. Bush's tax cuts in 2001 that he was rewarded with a prime spot at the signing ceremony in the White House East Room. Two years ...
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dailykos.com 7/27/2009 — You don't generally think of Max Baucus as a headline-seeking kind of legislator. He's not the guy showing up every Sunday on the talk shows, or getting into every Washington Post story to weigh in on the issue of the day. So you don't see a lot of ...
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washingtonmonthly.com 9/9/2009 — BAUCUS HAS A PLAN.... Four of the five congressional committees working on health care reform finished their work in July. The political world has been waiting, with various degrees of patience, for Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus ...
Max Baucus, Senator from Montana
baucus.senate.gov 6/7/2009 — Recent News (Washington D.C.)- Montana's senior U.S. Senator Max Baucus, left, had a private lunch with President Barack Obama, center, on May 6 to discuss health care reform. Also at the lunch were Finance Committee Ranking Member Charles Grassley ...
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rollcall.com 7/9/2009 — Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) continued working with Republicans on a bipartisan health care bill Wednesday, despite an urgent warning from Senate Democratic leaders that the potential cost of wooing GOP votes could have a devastating ...
Baucus the "Power Broker" Breaking his Base?
dailykos.com 8/3/2009 — Matthew Frank's profile of Max Baucus in the Missoula Independent goes a long way to explaining how this unlikeliest of small state Senators finds himself at the center of the most important public policy debate of a generation. The profile shows ...
What happened to Baucus?
washingtonmonthly.com 9/4/2009 — WHAT HAPPENED TO BAUCUS?.... Marcy Wheeler had a terrific item yesterday, summarizing a point that's been circulating a bit: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D) of Montana used to have a great health care plan. On November 12, 2008,...
Senate health care talks get difficult —
CNN Political Ticker 6/5/2009
(CNN) – The bipartisan leaders of the two Senate Committees in charge of writing a health care reform bill met Thursday afternoon to begin tackling what they said are the more difficult and complicated issues.
After the meeting the four leaders ...
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