npr.org - 7/24/2009
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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 Family Foundation. His words came tumbling out ...
trueslant.com - 7/28/2009
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trueslant.com —
The AP reports that “after weeks of secretive
talks, a bipartisan group in the Senate edged closer
Monday to a health care compromise that omits two key Democratic priorities but incorporates provisions to slow the explosive rise in medical costs.” ...
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Matt Taibbi - Taibblog - The Health Care Bill Dies?
campaignsilo.firedoglake.com - 7/29/2009
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via nDevilTV News that Senator Max Baucus' Finance
Committee deal on health care financing excluded a public
option sent health insurance stocks soaring Tuesday. Shares of U.S. health insurers rose broadly on Tuesday on hopes a health ...
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Health Insurance Stocks Soar on Baucus Deal News
voices.washingtonpost.com - 7/28/2009
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voices.washingtonpost.com —
the first steps of the fate of american
health care reform in the hands of a select
group of upper-class men, and one woman. the composition of that photograph looks like it was taken in a boardroom during the eisenhower administration, in the ...
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Ezra Klein
- The Max Baucus Committee
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Grassley's True Colors
Daily Kos —
... So why does Chuck Grassley get a seat at the healthcare reform table? And why is Max Baucus continuing to drag this process out to their benefit? Surely it's not the money. ...
Baucus's Bad News Week
Daily Kos —
... & Golfing weekend in Big Sky at $2,500 a pop, $5,000 for a political action committee. He’s going to do it again at "Camp Baucus," at the end of July. One activist characterized this all as "unseemly," since he is at the center of the most critical reform debate of the session. Unseemly? Not in Max’s mind. "There’s no problem. I’ve been doing these events for more than 10 years." That leads to this week, when NPR decided to ask, "Who Has Access to Max Baucus?" You'll be shocked, shocked by the conclusion. ...
Cenk Uygur: The "Bipartisan Compromise" Scam
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
So, some of the top corporatist Democrats and Republicans in the Senate sat around a table in the Finance Committee for awhile pretending to sweat out a compromise and then came out with exactly what we thought they would - a health care proposal that benefits the health care companies above all. Shocking. What did we expect?
Max Baucus is the ring leader of this merry band of six senators. Seven out of his top ten donors are ... health care companies (he has received close to $4 million from the health care industry). You don't say? And then he crafts a ...
The 'Bipartisan Compromise' Scam
Commondreams.org Views —
So, some of the top corporatist Democrats and Republicans in the Senate sat around a table in the Finance Committee for awhile pretending to sweat out a compromise and then came out with exactly what we thought they would -- a health care proposal that benefits the health care companies above all. Shocking. What did we expect? Max Baucus is the ring leader of this merry band of six senators. Seven out of his top ten ...
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What Happens When you Put Max Baucus in Charge of Healthcare Reform?
dailykos.com 7/28/2009 — You get jack shit. Well, first you get a lot of secretive "bipartisan" meetings in which key players in the Democratic caucus are shut out. Then you get a bill that sucks . This is still based on anonymous sources, so take it with a bit of salt, but ...
The Baucus Bill's Bad Math
fivethirtyeight.com 7/28/2009 — The Associated Press has some speculative details of the "compromise" health care bill that looks ready, at long last, to emerge from Max Baucus's Senate Finance Committee: [Any] legislation that emerges from the talks is expected to provide for a ...
Baucus to Unveil Magical Health Care Bill?
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 7/29/2009 — Max Baucus is making some big claims on his own behalf, according to Jeff Young:
A draft bipartisan healthcare reform bill being negotiated in the Senate would extend insurance coverage to 95 percent of legal U.S. residents, cost less than $900 ...
Bipartisanship, again? Why, exactly? —
Daily Kos
Thanks again, Max Baucus, for the Max Baucus Committee Bill. In case you hadn't noticed, the rest of your official committee is just a little pissed off about that whole thing. And with damned good reason. The more we find out about it, the worse it gets . But some liberal Democrats, like ...
The best healthcare a lobbyist can buy —
The Reaction
By Creature Let's be clear, the healthcare bill coming out of The Max Baucus Committee will be the best bipartisan bill a lobbyist money can buy. Hopefully the rest of America's interests can be reconciled with it once Baucus and his five greedy friends get their hands off of it. I'm not ...
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