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NEWS ABOUT: Max Baucus

Max Baucus stories: 69 news summaries

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kate sheppard

 Let's Hope 
 Baucus Doesn't 
 'Gum Up' 
 Climate Bill 

He's already trying to water down

Oct 29, 09 12:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Now that his committee is done with health care reform, Max Baucus has time to turn his attention to the climate bill. As a member of Barbara Boxer's environmental panel, "his ability to gum up the works is significant," writes Kate Sheppard . Essentially, he may do to the... More »

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Congress • Montana • Max Baucus • Barbara Boxer • climate change legislation • compromise • Senate Committee on Environment • Environment and Public Works • bipartisan

 Reid Goes for 
 Broke With Public 
 Option Bill 

Senate majority leader banks on 60 votes, infuriates Baucus

Oct 23, 09 7:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Harry Reid is preparing to bring a health reform bill that includes a public option to the floor of the Senate, gambling that his 60-member caucus will support the plan if it contains opt-out measures for individual states. The majority leader and other senators met with Barack Obama yesterday to... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Barack Obama • Charles Schumer • Senate • Harry Reid • Olympia Snowe • Susan Collins • Mary Landrieu • health care reform • Max Baucus • Ben Nelson • public option

OPINION


 Palin Wades 
 Back Into 
 Health Care 
 Debate 

On Facebook, former Alaska gov picks apart Baucus bill

Oct 18, 09 3:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - With less than a month to go before the release of her memoir, Sarah Palin has weighed in on the health care debate, opining that the authors of the Baucus bill "no doubt have good intentions, but good intentions aren’t enough." Furthermore, the effort in general "... More »

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Alaska • Republican • Facebook • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • Max Baucus • Sarah Palin

sausage and politics

Dems Helped Shape Health Industry Ad Campaign

Meeting raises questions about ties to big business

Oct 16, 09 11:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Aides to President Obama and Max Baucus met with a variety of lobbyists for corporate health care companies on April 15, to help form two industry coalitions and launch a multimillion-dollar ad campaign, Politico has learned. Though both sides insist no quid pro quo was laid out, some participants say... More »

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ethics • Barack Obama • advertising • pharma • health care industry • lobbying • lobbyists • health care reform • Max Baucus • special interests • US Senate • Obama administration • President Obama

noonan to obama:

Enough Already! Stop Trying to Grow Government

We're already too crowded with social problems; no room left

Oct 16, 09 3:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration hasn't just misjudged the national mood by trying to push through health care reform in the middle of a recession, it's misjudged the whole era we're living in, writes Peggy Noonan. This isn't the '30s, when income tax was new and the federal government was still lean,... More »

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health care reform • Max Baucus • budget deficit • Federal government • Peggy Noonan • Obama administration • Paul Ryan

Obama
Praises 'Critical Milestone' of Baucus Bill

Instead of celebrating, 'now is time to dig in'

Oct 13, 09 4:48 PM CDT
(AP) - President Obama called today's passage of legislation by a key Senate committee "a critical milestone" toward getting a health care overhaul this year, but said "now is not the time to pat ourselves on the back." Obama spoke in the Rose Garden about two hours after the... More »

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Senate • Olympia Snowe • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • Max Baucus • President Obama

 Baucus Panel 
 Approves Health Bill 

Snowe is only Republican 'yes' vote

Oct 13, 09 2:13 PM CDT
(AP) - A pivotal Senate committee has approved a sweeping remake of the country's health care system, delivering a long-sought boost to President Obama's goal of expanding coverage. The 14-9 vote in the Senate Finance Committee sets up a historic debate on the Senate floor and moves health care overhaul closer to... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • Olympia Snowe • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • Max Baucus

 Snowe to Vote for Health Bill 

She provides crucial Republican support for Obama's overhaul

Oct 13, 09 12:26 PM CDT
(AP) - Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe says she will vote for a Democratic health care bill, breaking with her party on President Obama's top legislative priority. The Maine senator kept virtually all of Washington guessing how she would vote until she announced it late in the Senate Finance Committee debate today. "... More »

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Congress • legislation • Maine • Olympia Snowe • Republican Party • Senate Finance Committee • vote • health care reform • Max Baucus • Obama administration • bipartisan

ANALYSIS

Yea or Nay, How Health Bill Hinges on Snowe's Vote

Either way, Maine Republican will likely preserve leverage going to the floor

Oct 13, 09 10:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - The day is finally here: Olympia Snowe will have to vote one way or another on the Senate Finance Committee’s health reform bill. The Maine Republican has been coy—“It’s all about what I’m comfortable doing at the end of the day”—but that doesn’... More »

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Congress • legislation • Olympia Snowe • Senate Finance Committee • vote • health care reform • reconciliation • Max Baucus • Obama administration

House, Senate Dems Split on 'Cadillac Tax'

As finance committee votes, caucus divided on how to fund reform

Oct 13, 09 8:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Senate Finance Committee is poised to send its bill to the full legislature today, but its provision taxing "Cadillac" insurance plans is raising hackles in the House. Max Baucus and other senators say taxing high-cost plans will raise $200 billion, a quarter of the legislation's price tag, and... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • health care • Barack Obama • Congress • health insurance • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • congressional Democrats • Max Baucus • taxation

analysis

Industry Report Distorts Health Reform Cost

Insurance firms' numbers blindside Baucus bill's backers

Oct 12, 09 2:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - A new report that says the Senate Finance Committee’s reform bill would raise private insurance premiums is riddled with troubling exceptions, writes Jonathan Cohn. The report, commissioned by America's Health Insurance Plans, estimates the costs of premiums over time if the bill is implemented, but it doesn’t take... More »

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health insurance • insurance companies • Senate Finance Committee • health insurance premiums • health care reform • Max Baucus • US Senate • America's Health Insurance Plans

Lobbyists Deal Death Blows to Health Care Cost Cuts

Having KO'd most cuts, they're aiming at Cadillac tax and Medicare commission

Oct 11, 09 6:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Who's winning the health care battle? Lobbyists, says the New York Times, who've succeeded in blocking virtually every avenue for cutting health care costs that has been put on the table. They've killed proposals that would pinch doctors, hospitals, insurers and employees who are the beneficiaries of so-called Cadillac health... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • hospitals • White House • lobbyists • health care reform • Jay Rockefeller • Max Baucus • health insurers • doctors

OPINION

Maybe Baucus Bill Is Better Than Nothing

David Brooks wishes Congress had listened to Ron Wyden

Oct 9, 09 7:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Even David Brooks has become convinced that the health care system needs a fundamental overhaul—and unfortunately, it’s not going to get one. The best option, Democrat Ron Wyden’s proposal to let employees take their employer’s contribution and spend it on an open health care exchange, was... More »

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health care reform • Max Baucus • David Brooks • Ron Wyden • health insurance exchange

Public Option Compromise Gains Steam

Proposal creates national plan but lets states opt out

Oct 8, 09 5:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - The public option lives: both conservative and liberal Democrats seem to like an idea proposed by Chuck Schumer to establish a national health plan but allow states to opt out if they so choose. Conservative Ben Nelson has backed it, and a spokesman for Max Baucus said he might join... More »

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Charles Schumer • Howard Dean • health care reform • Max Baucus • Ben Nelson

OPINION

Rove: Health Care Bill Is
Gift to GOP

Backlash against spending will be 'boon'
to party in 2010

Oct 8, 09 4:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - The GOP is winning the debate on health care and it'll win control of Congress as well if the Democrats manage to pass a health care bill, writes Karl Rove. Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus wants to "front-load" the bill with hefty tax hikes that will kick in... More »

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health care • Congress • Karl Rove • government spending • health care reform • congressional Democrats • Max Baucus • 2010 election

CBO: Baucus Bill Would
Cut Deficit by $81B

Projection is good news for Democrats

Oct 7, 09 4:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Good news for Democrats and Max Baucus: The Congressional Budget Office says the Senate finance panel's health care bill won't add to the deficit. In fact, the CBO says the bill would reduce it by $81 billion over 10 years. That should make it easier for Baucus to push his... More »

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Congress • Congressional Budget Office • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • Max Baucus

HEALTH NEGOTIATIONS

Senate Bill Likely to Come Down to Reid, Dodd, Baucus

Baucus, Dodd the only senators with secure seats at negotiating table

Oct 7, 09 11:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Every senator worth their salt is salivating for a seat at the table when Harry Reid merges the Senate’s two competing health care bills—but the vast majority will instead have their noses pressed to the glass. Reid hopes to speed things up by keeping the group small, Politico... More »

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Senate • Harry Reid • Olympia Snowe • Chris Dodd • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • Jay Rockefeller • Max Baucus • Tom Harkin • Kent Conrad • Health, Education, Labor & Pensions

 Schwarzenegger 
 Latest in GOP 
 to Back Reform 

Calls for health bill this year in opposition to congressional GOP's wish for do-over

Oct 6, 09 2:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Arnold Schwarzenegger today became the highest-ranking elected Republican to back President Obama's push for health care reform. California's governor urged lawmakers "on both sides of the political aisle at the national level to move forward." He spoke after New York City's Mike Bloomberg, a Republican-turned-independent, also endorsed reform.... More »

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Bush administration • Congress • Tommy Thompson • Arnold Schwarzenegger • Bill Frist • Mitch McConnell • legislation • Richard Gephardt • health care reform • Max Baucus • Obama administration

 Forget Baucus: Reid 
 Takes Reins on Health Care 

Tough issues will be on the table as the majority leader tries to hammer out a bill

Oct 3, 09 9:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - In the Senate Finance Committee, it's all over but the voting, and Democratic hopes for health care reform now rest with Harry Reid, who has to pull something cogent (and passable) out of a welter of conflicting proposals from several committees. That puts him the "in the eye of... More »

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Charles Schumer • Senate • Harry Reid • Olympia Snowe • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • Max Baucus

Health Bill Author Baucus Reaps $1.5M From Industry

Finance chairman raked in donations while crafting measure

Oct 2, 09 3:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - It's no secret that Capitol Hill is awash in money from the health-care industry but the amounts involved are far larger than many realize, according to a new report from a watchdog group. The Sunlight Foundation found that many senators—especially Montana Democrat Max Baucus, chair of the Senate Finance... More »

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health care industry • lobbyist • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • Max Baucus • political donations

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