The Baucus Health Care Bill: A Work In Progress (Cont’d.)

I noted yesterday that Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has signaled he is open to making adjustments to his bill, even before it gets to its first formal drafting session on Tuesday. (Stay tuned to Swampland, by the way, to follow the progress of the markup. We have some special plans for coverage in [...]

The Baucus Health Care Bill: A Work in Progress

I talked to Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus last night after what sounded like a pretty stormy meeting with his fellow committee Democrats last night. Baucus is still sounding confident about the prospects for his bill, but also suggests he is open to some significant changes in it, particularly on the question of making insurance [...]

Things Dems Hate About Baucus’ Bill

My story out today focuses on five things but I think there are actually six – I just ran out of space. Plus, for some odd reason, readers don’t like listy pieces over five bullet points, I’m told. Actually, there are probably hundreds or thousands of things that lawmakers could find to loathe in this [...]

Max in the Driver’s Seat

I got the same impression from the President’s speech as the New York Times’ David Herzenhorn did:

The Baucus Health Care Proposal

Ezra has it here.