mcjoan, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. November 10, 2009. Sens. Barbara Boxer and Max Baucus seem to think so. But how ConservaDems will react is still unclear.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. October 13, 2009. Snowe, a moderate Republican from Maine, announced she will vote for the current bill. Here's why that news is both good and bad.
Booman, Booman Tribune AlterNet: Health and Wellness. October 13, 2009. Sen. Thomas R. Carper (D-DE) has proposed a plan in which states would get the public option by default.
Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. October 10, 2009. Entrusting Baucus with the heavy job of shepherding health care reform through the upper chamber is like asking Tweety Bird to lift a bowling ball.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Health and Wellness. October 7, 2009. The bill would cost $829 billion over the next decade, achieve $81 billion in deficit reduction, and cover 94% of the population.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. September 22, 2009. The Baucus proposal includes a tax intended to dupe the public into thinking it soaks the rich. In truth, it would stick it to millions in the middle class.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. September 22, 2009. The GOP keeps saying it agrees with 80 percent of what's in the current bill. So why all the pressure to scrap it?
mcjoan, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. September 17, 2009. The Baucus debacle might just end up being the kick start the Democrats needed to reinvigorate them for the fight for a public option.
mcjoan, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. September 17, 2009. Baucus is apparently not as smart as the majority of American people, who in a new Bloomberg poll show that they know bullshit when they see it.
mcjoan, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. September 16, 2009. Hey Blue Dogs, you really want to jump in on this middle class tax increase known as the Baucus bill?
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. September 16, 2009. The insurance industry is being protected from not just public competition, but co-op competition.
Faiz Shakir, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. September 16, 2009. He reiterated his hope that Republicans will vote for his bill by the time a vote comes up
Mike Lux, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. September 16, 2009. Traditional media will act like whatever is in the Senate Finance bill will be the bill, that the deal is done. Not even close, folks.
dday, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. September 15, 2009. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, 62.9 percent of American physicians favor a plan with both public and private insurance options.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. September 9, 2009. Today's news means the Gang of Six's relevance no longer matters -- the Finance Committee is moving forward.
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. September 9, 2009. "I was told that — that K Street had a copy of the Baucus plan, meaning, not surprisingly, the special interests have gotten a copy," said Press Sec. Robert Gibbs.
Booman, Booman Tribune AlterNet: Health and Wellness. August 29, 2009. Understanding this stuff offers a window into the prospects of health reforms passing.
Jonathan Walker, Campaign for America's Future AlterNet: Politics. August 7, 2009. Baucus' plan reduces cost by simply leaving around 17 million Americans uninsured.
Ryan Powers, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. July 8, 2009. Reid ordered Baucus to drop a proposal to tax health benefits and stop chasing Republican votes on a massive health care reform bill.
Joe Conason, Truthdig. June 27, 2009. Whenever Democratic politicians are confronted with this conflict between the public interest and their private fund-raising, they choose the latter.
