Sen. Max Baucus & Health Care Insurance Newsletter
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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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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 …
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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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Meet the college basketball player turned US senator who pitched a tax on billionaires like Elon Musk to fund Biden's economic agenda
01 Apr 2022 12:29 GMT
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From left, Sens. Max Baucus, Mike Crapo, and Wyden … secure universal healthcare for Americans by expanding private insurance. Though … valuable learning experience the senator still draws from.
Democrats … to forge the ACA. Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, the last …
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Abortion and the Baucus health care bill
03 Jan 2019 04:24 GMT
… -anticipated plan for health care reform, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus hoped to eliminate … would provide health care subsidies of a certain amount whether an insurer covers … people would now get insurance due to the health care plan, and some …
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Your guide to distortions on health care
03 Jan 2019 04:31 GMT
… will dump their private insurance to get lower health care premiums. Over time … an expansive government health care plan would drive private insurers out of business … they want to pay for health care. Sen. Max Baucus of Montana of held a …
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'Campaign Beat:' Dems Divided On Health Care; Changing Gun Control Positions; Why Money Matters
14 Apr 2018 05:31 GMT
… 39; Dems Divided On Health Care; Changing Gun Control Positions … and remembering former Montana Senator and U.S. Rep … political influence of the insurance lobby, pharmaceutical lobby … Max Baucus made the deliberate decision to work within the existing healthcare …
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Democrats Have Given Up on Private Health Care Markets — and for Good Reason
09 Oct 2017 12:34 GMT
… co-sponsors, including every senator seen as a 2020 … to universal health care. Making regulated private insurance markets work …
Back in 2009, former Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., spent weeks … a suspicious amount of Healthcare.gov maintenance outages during …
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Sen Charles "Chuck" Grassley on the Need to Lower Prescription-Drug Costs
18 Oct 2019 19:38 GMT
… 17, 2019) — Prepared remarks by Senator Charles "Chuck" … drug coverage through private insurers.
Vice President Al Gore … recognize that.
My friend Sen [Max] Baucus and I were able to … to new innovation in the health-care world.
The Prescription Drug …