Baucus Bill

Healthcare Reform Update: Inside Baseball Time

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If you are a baseball fan, you’ll appreciate the correlation between a baseball game and the present course of healthcare reform.  A baseball game starts with anticipation and fanfare; speeches, the throwing out of the first pitch, the national anthem and the players taking the field.  The fans settle in and the game begins with cheers … Read more

Baucus Bill Survives Committee: What Next

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The Senate Finance Committee this afternoon, on a vote of 14-9, approved the Baucus Bill out of committee, sending it theoretically to a floor vote. Sen. Olympia Snowe, a Republican from Maine, was the lone Republican vote in support.  The Bill, a center of recent controversy in terms of its lack of reported details, incomplete … Read more