dailykos.com - 9/7/2009
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Max Baucus (D-MT) has finally decided to let us all know that he's formulated his health care plan: In a last effort to give the Senate a bipartisan health care bill, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee circulated a comprehensive proposal on Sunday to overhaul the health care ...
Baucus: Health Care Reform Will Happen This Year With Or Without GOP
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 ...
Baucus Talking Reconciliation, AP Using GOP Jargon
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 9/2/2009 — Frank Luntz couldn't ahve said it better.
Very strange choice of language by the Associated Press:
“I think the chances are still good,” Baucus told The Associated Press in an interview Monday . “I talked to them, and they ...
Grassley: The One Who Got Away
swampland.blogs.time.com 9/3/2009 — If there had ever been any hope for real GOP support for President Obama's health care plan, it came in the form of Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, who has been negotiating behind the scenes for months with his good friend Finance Committee Chairman Max ...
Hope dies last, after common sense
majikthise.typepad.com 9/4/2009 — Karen Tumulty : If there had ever been any hope for real GOP support for President
Obama's health care plan, it came in the form of Iowa Senator Chuck
Grassley, who has been negotiating behind the scenes for months with
his good friend Finance ...
What Happened to the Baucus Plan?
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 9/4/2009 — I’ve mentioned this before , but as Marcy Wheeler reminds us in the wake of Barack Obama’s election the main reason to be hopeful about the prospects for universal health care wasn’t so much the election of a new progressive ...
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,...
Baucus Unveils Health Care Plan With No Co-ops or Public Option
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 9/7/2009 — After months of frustrating deliberations, and a threat from the White House that President Obama would write his own legislation, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has finally circulated a draft of a health care bill--one that contains ...
Baucus 'Plan' Released
angrybear.blogspot.com 9/7/2009 — by Bruce Webb Call to Action: Health Reform 2009 This paper — this Call to Action — represents the next step. It is not intended to be a legislative proposal. Nor is it an exhaustive exploration of every health care issue that should or needs to be addressed, or that will be considered. Rather, ...
Baucus Circulates Health Care Plan
openleft.com 9/7/2009 — And it is every bit as bad as you thought it would be .
No Public Option :
The proposal by Mr. Baucus does not include a public option, or a government-run insurance plan, to compete with private insurers, as many Democrats want.
Co-ops :
Two ...
The Case Against Baucus-Care —
Open Left - Front Page
To serve as a counter to the more widely publicized positive analysis of the proposed health care bill from Max Baucus , here is a round-up of the negative appraisals that (mostly) progressives have given of that proposal:
It won't lower the price of health insurance premiums . Ezra Klein :
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Baucus Bill: The Reviews Are Not Good —
Tennessee Guerilla Women
The Baucus health care reform bill is out and the reviews are devastating: Jane Hamsher -- Baucus Bill: Forcing Americans to Buy Junk Insurance They Can’t Afford to Use . Chris Bowers -- Baucus Circulates Health Care Plan and it is every bit as bad as you thought it would be. ...
The Baucus Plan: Junk Insurance by Definition —
Firedoglake
graphic by twolf1
Jane and Scarecrow show that Max Baucus' real plan is for the uninsured to be forced to buy junk insurance. They are referring to the minimum actuarial value of the plans that Baucus is talking about. He proposes a mandate that uninsured people get plans that will cover ...
Baucus Courts President Snowe —
TalkLeft
NYTimes on the Baucus health care plan : People familiar with Mr. Baucus’s plan said it was calculated to appeal to Senator Olympia J. Snowe, Republican of Maine. . . . Mr. Baucus’s plan . . . would tax insurance companies on their most expensive health care policies. . . . ...
Baucus has a plan —
Political Animal
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 (D-Mont.) to...
Baucus Plan To Unfreeze From Glacial Ice? —
Firedoglake
Big Bucks Baucus (from http://maxbaucus.info/)
Following the announcement from the White House that they were crafting their own health care bill (to memorialize the deals that they negotiated with Baucus and stakeholders ), it looks like Baucus has decided he wants to write the bill ...
Baucus: Public Option Not Likely to Survive —
TPM Election Central
No big surprise here, but at this stage of the game it's worth keeping tabs on what all the key players are saying. Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus says a public option probably isn't gonna make it.
"I'm not sure if public option is going to survive, frankly," Baucus told a ...
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