Max Baucus

Whatever happened to the Obama ‘movement’?

The Obama for President campaign excited millions, enthused many first-time voters, and inspired youthful door-to-door campaigning. “Plouffe and others thought from the beginning that the main obstacle to the White House was...

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A Political Who’s Who of Global Warming Liars

As the global warming fraud unravels, it’s a good time to look at the politicians who have been some of the most outspoken advocates, using global warming/climate change to advance “Cap-and-Trade” legislation and other related...

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Big Pharma Sells Out

A business ad campaign could defeat ObamaCare, which is falling in polls. However the Senate's health-care debate pans out, we'll wager this prediction: The pharmaceutical executives who have endorsed this exercise will...

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Analysis: Courting doctors in special interest war

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., looks on before speaking to reporters about health care reform legislation, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. In the special interest war over...

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Basic Medicare premium to rise 15% next year

Among the beneficiaries who will pay more are those who are new to the program and those with high incomes. WASHINGTON — The basic Medicare premium will shoot up next year by 15 percent, to $110.50 a month, federal officials...

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Public Option Gets New Life in Senate

By GREG HITT and JANET ADAMY WASHINGTON -- The idea of creating a government-run health-insurance plan, once on life support in the Senate, is making a recovery among Democrats writing health-care legislation. "This issue is...

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Most support public option for health insurance, poll finds

A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that support for a government-run health-care plan to compete with private insurers has rebounded from its summertime lows and wins clear majority support from the public.

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Tensions rise among Senate Dem leaders (Politico)

Glenn Thrush Glenn Thrush – 15 mins ago Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid had assembled his leadership team for a quick strategy session at the Capitol last week when somebody noticed that Sen. Chuck Schumer was absent. Reid’s...

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Illness often undiscovered and undertreated among the uninsured: Harvard study

A new study shows uninsured American adults with chronic illnesses like diabetes, high cholesterol or hypertension often go undiagnosed and undertreated, leading to an increased risk of costly, disabling and even lethal...

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Conservatives: Baucus healthcare bill really, really long

No one's going to make a hobby out of reading legislation just for fun. (Well, someone may, but I understand there are drugs that will cure that.) Even by the standards of a normal bill, though, the draft of the healthcare...

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