Topic: Max Baucus

More challenges await lawmaker as Obama pushes to get health overhaul doneSenate Democrats see plenty of room for improvement in a sweeping health care overhaul bill, starting with changes to a tax on high-cost insurance policies that could hit middle-class Americans hard.Senate ...

Obama, Baucus push U.S. healthcare reform

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama pitched his U.S. healthcare reforms to college students on Thursday and Senate Democrats searched for common ground after some criticized elements of a highly anticipated new plan.Facing a lack of support from Republicans, Senate Finance Committee ...
The GOOD ENOUGH, the BAD and the UGLY of the Baucus health care bill is that it meets merely one of President Obama's three mandatory goals for healthcare reform legislation: Goal #1 - Reform of Private Insurance Practices - From detail thus ...
The $856 billion proposal for national health-care reform that Senator Max Baucus [D-Mont.] unveiled on Sept. 16 is the most moderate and the least expensive of any proposal to emerge from Congress thus far -- the result of months of negotiations. But ...

Senator's plan joins heated healthcare debate

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Max Baucus unveiled a long-awaited healthcare overhaul on Wednesday that would dramatically revamp insurance rules but does not include a government-run option backed by liberal Democrats.After months of negotiations, the Baucus bill -- which would cost an estimated ...
Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele says he fears the health insurance cooperatives envisioned in the bill the Senate Finance Committee is promoting amounts to a " back door to a public option. "Interviewed Thursday on CBS's "The Early Show," Steele also said ...
Sen. Max Baucus on Wednesday brought out the much-awaited Finance Committee version of an American health-system remake a landmark $856 billion, 10-year measure that starts a rough ride through Congress without visible Republican backing.The bill by Baucus, Democratic chairman of the Senate ...
After three months of bipartisan talks, Democratic senator Max Baucus unveiled Tuesday a plan for an 856-billion-dollar overhaul of US health care but his proposals won no Republican support.Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, has been leading a panel of three ...

Senate panel releases healthcare plan without public option

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Max Baucus unveiled his plan for a 10-year, $856 billion healthcare overhaul on Wednesday that would revamp insurance rules but does not include a government-run option backed by liberal Democrats.Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, ...

Senate healthcare bill on track for public release

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bipartisan negotiators on the U.S. Senate Finance Committee worked to pare down the costs of a broad healthcare overhaul on Monday, and chairman Max Baucus said he was still on track to produce a bill this week.The latest Congressional ...