Sen. Max Baucus & Health Care Insurance Newsletter
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The health care debate is back in Washington. It never really went away
15 Jan 2026 05:16 GMT
… Democrats pressed for guaranteed insurance coverage for a broader … Obamacare as unfairly subsidizing insurers, a point that could … create a public health insurance option on the ACA … health care system created in its wake has problems. Former Sen. Max Baucus, …
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Guest column: The solution to healthcare is at hand
20 Jan 2026 16:54 GMT
… ACA, Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus, declared that a universal plan … required to provide health care to everyone regardless of insurance, ability to pay … .” That efficient health care system has been designed, by Harvard healthcare policy experts …
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Talking health care: A conversation with Max Baucus on laws that shaped rural hospitals
10 Dec 2025 20:19 GMT
Max Baucus, Montana’s longest-serving U.S. senator, played a leading role during … , children’s health, all the healthcare programs. It has jurisdiction over … lot of waste, insurance companies not providing health care for pre-existing conditions …
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Saturday 1/31: We Need Single Payer Healthcare For All NOW!
14 Jan 2026 15:14 GMT
… of affordability or provide the healthcare Americans need because Washington’s … the name, President Obama and Senator Max Baucus, then chair of the powerful … -group, private health insurance (orange) slice of the health care pie, where 24 …
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Enhance The Subsidies And Let Insurance Industry Feed At Federal Trough?
12 Nov 2025 23:34 GMT
… the name, President Obama and Senator Max Baucus, then chair of the powerful … making health care affordable (which would have required the elimination of health insurance … -group, private health insurance (orange) slice of the health care pie, where 24 …
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Subsidizing healthcare or billionaires
27 Mar 2025 00:00 GMT
It looks like the only way Congress can pay for tax cuts for billionaires is to cut spending on Medicaid and Medicare. Why? It’s like the bank robber Willie Sutton said when someone asked him why he robbed banks, “That’s where the money is.”
Just in case …
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Health Care Reform’s History of Utter Failure
28 Nov 2021 10:00 GMT
… insurers to focus on the more profitable employer-based market.
Health care … cornerstone of a universal healthcare program. It too died … to pass. Moderate Democratic Senator Max Baucus of Montana, the chairman … was. The opening of Healthcare.gov proved to be …
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Exclusive: How Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi pushed Barack Obama to go big on health care
09 Apr 2021 07:19 GMT
… his losses on a comprehensive health care bill. Chief of Staff … That’s why Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi … Dakota and Finance chairman Max Baucus of Montana had adamantly … that made them unappealing to insurance companies.
Some of those …
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Righting the record on the Affordable Care Act
14 Jan 2026 13:59 GMT
… interview with Montana’s former senator Max Baucus. As the chairman of the … Baucus’ plan to stick the insurance industry squarely between patients and their health care … have passed real health care, not increasingly expensive health insurance in the misnamed …
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Opinion: Former Sen. Max Baucus: Breakthrough Alzheimer’s drugs are out of reach for many in rural states like Montana
03 Aug 2023 11:35 GMT
… we could reform our health insurance system to massively expand … have access to health insurance that used to be … Democrats expanded access to core health care services with the Affordable Care … it happen.
Max Baucus was a U.S. senator from Montana from …