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BLOG POSTS with the TAG: "Max Baucus"
by LukeAmerica2020 on October 22, 2009
On Fox News’ “Your World” with Neil Cavuto today, he had the world’s faster reader, Howard Berg, quickly peruse the 1502-page Baucus ObamaCare bill. He gave a brief analysis upon completion … which took about 25 mintues. This video is from the ReturnOfObamaSecrets YouTube channel.
by LukeAmerica2020 on October 19, 2009
The Senate Finance Committee’s HealthCare Bill (Baucus Bill) is now available online. The 1,502 page bill is officially entitled “America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009.” Reference:
by LukeAmerica2020 on October 13, 2009
The Senate Finance Committee’s version of ObamaCare passed today with a vote of 14 to 9. Olympia Snowe (D-ME) was the only Republican to the support the bill. (video below) At the White House, Obama called the events “a critical milestone” toward remaking the nation’s health care system. He praised Snowe as well as Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), chairman of the committee, and declared, “We are going to get this done.”
by LukeAmerica2020 on September 30, 2009
Senate Finance Committee Democrats rejected a proposed requirement that immigrants prove their identity with photo identification when signing up for federal healthcare programs. Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said that current law and the healthcare bill under consideration are too lax and leave the door open to illegal immigrants defrauding the government using false or stolen identities to obtain benefits. Grassley’s amendment was beaten back 10-13 on a party-line vote.
by LukeAmerica2020 on September 25, 2009
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), said today (September 25th) a tax on high-cost insurance plans is “under consideration” as Democrats search for consensus within their ranks before taking a bill to the House floor later this fall. The current House Democratic plan (HR-3200) calls for raising income taxes on upper-income people to pay for covering the uninsured. In the Senate, Max Baucus (D-MT) has instead proposed a tax on high-cost insurance plans worth more than $8,000 for an individual policy and $21,000 for family coverage. Proponents of the insurance tax, which Obama has endorsed, say it would help to lower health care costs by encouraging people to become more cost-conscious health care consumers.
by LukeAmerica2020 on September 24, 2009
Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, recently asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to investigate a mailer sent by the Humana healthcare company to senior citizens that it insures claiming it misled seniors about proposed changes to Medicare. The letter Humana sent to its enrollees regards its concerns about potential cuts in the Medicare Advantage program. The investigation resulted in a letter being sent to Humana, a Louisville, Kentucky based health insurance provider, and other health insurers who have a fiduciary relationship with CMS that imposes an industry-wide “gag order” ordering a halt to any additional mailings and effectively prevents companies from communicating with their customers about the impact of any pending healthcare reform legislation.
by LukeAmerica2020 on September 24, 2009
Senate Finance Committee Democrats, led by Max Baucus (D-MT), have rejected a GOP amendment that would have required a health care overhaul bill, America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009, to be available online for 72 hours before the committee votes claiming that it was a GOP delaying tactic. Republicans argued that transparency is an Obama administration goal and said their constituents are demanding that they read bills before voting. Just this past summer a groundswell of grassroots activists spanning both parties urged Congress to “read the bills” before voting. Nonetheless, democrat senators are refusing not only to read the details, but also to refusing to put them in writing before a committee vote. Meanwhile … the push by these democrats and the Obama administration is to rush the bill through … faster than public awareness can catch up.
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