washingtonmonthly.com - 9/4/2009
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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,...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 9/8/2009
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
I hope that my bona fides as a
Max Baucus detractor are not seriously in doubt. And
as a Max Baucus detractor, I certainly have my criticisms of the plan he put out. A plan that’s relatively stingy to working Americans would be more ...
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Context for the Baucus Plan
emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 9/8/2009
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emptywheel.firedoglake.com —
All this time I've been calling Max Tax
health care Max Baucus' health care plan. But, as
William Ockham points out , it's actually Liz Fowler's health care plan (if you open the document and look under document properties, it lists her as ...
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The Max Tax: Baucus Plan Written by Former WellPoint VP ...
emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 9/3/2009
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9/4: Drawing A Line In The Sand
Blogometer —
... to public school students, as they believe that Obama is trying to "indoctrinate the young" . Many righty bloggers ( Malkin , McCain , Howe ) are urging conservative parents to keep their kids home from school on 9/8 so that they'll avoid watching Obama's speech. Liberal bloggers ( Cole , Benen , Willis , BooMan ) think that conservatives have gone crazy. Several liberal bloggers ( Wheeler , Yglesias , Benen , Black ) are pointing out that Senate Finance Cmte Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) ...
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npr.org 7/24/2009 — Max Baucus is the nexus of dozens, even hundreds of interests in the health-care bill. In Congress since 1975, he's learned how to build relationships and how to leverage them. Baucus described his methods last spring, in a talk hosted by the Kaiser ...
The result of Baucus' 'hard work'
washingtonmonthly.com 9/17/2009 — THE RESULT OF BAUCUS' 'HARD WORK'.... In unveiling his health care reform framework this afternoon, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) called his proposal "balanced" a "common-sense" plan that "will" pass. He was asked, not ...
Voodoo Cost Savings
baselinescenario.com 9/17/2009 — If you really want to know about Max Baucus’s bill, head on over to Ezra Klein’s blog, which is all Baucus, all day. If you want to complain about fake cost-saving measures, stay here.
A major selling point of the Baucus bill (can’t ...
Do Baucus' Ties To Health Care Industry Compromise His Reform Efforts?
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 7/7/2009 — If you're a long-time politico, you may have seen it coming: Standing between progressives and fundamental health care reform is a 30-year Senate veteran with a reputation cemented long ago as a deal-maker -- or less charitably, as a sellout. ...
Hey, Max Baucus, what's the point?
the-reaction.blogspot.com 9/16/2009 — By Michael J.W. Stickings That's right, what's the point of Sen. Max Baucus's health-care reform proposal? Is it to win bipartisan support? Yes, probably, given that Baucus all along has been trying to work with the few Republicans who have shown ...
Baucus defends bipartisan health reform
helenair.com 8/21/2009 — Sen. Max Baucus on Thursday defended his insistence on a bipartisan process for delivering a health care reform bill to the floor of the Senate, claiming that an approach involving both Republicans and Democrats has the best chance for success, both ...
Baucuscare: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 9/17/2009 — Sen. Max Baucus' health care reform proposal doesn't have any friends on the right or left, and most of the support it does have comes from industry, and industry-backed House Blue Dogs. But though the skepticism of the Baucus plan is borne out of a ...
Dems Finding Plenty To Dislike About Baucus Plan
huffingtonpost.com 9/22/2009 — WASHINGTON — Unhappy Senate Democrats on Thursday found plenty to complain about in the fine print of the latest health overhaul bill, particularly a tax provision they fear would hit hard at middle-class Americans, from coal miners in West ...
Max Baucus Was for a Deadline Before He Was Against It
blogs.tnr.com 8/24/2009 — I just returned from a week long vacation, so my
apologies if this has been covered. The worst news of a terrible week
is that Max Baucus is even more pathetic than I thought, and believe
me, I had set the bar extremely low. A few weeks ago, Max ...
Baucus Bill Can't Reach 60 Votes
openleft.com 9/16/2009 — President Snowe has resigned :
Senate Democrats are going to have to move forward on healthcare without a single Republican supporter after Sen. Olympia Snowe said Tuesday she could not back the Finance Committee's bill.
Chairman Max Baucus ...
Gang of Six has 'productive' meeting —
First Read 9/4/2009
From NBC's Ken StricklandThe bipartisan group of Senate Finance Committee members drafting a health-care proposal met today via conference call. Committee Chairman Max Baucus called it "productive," but otherwise didn't make any news. The group will ...
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