Baucus to Bring Health Bill Before Committee Next Week

[eleny]

Source: Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON -- Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus intends to bring a health-overhaul bill before his committee the week of Sept. 21, people familiar with the matter said.

In a private meeting with Finance Committee Democrats Wednesday, the Montana Democrat outlined his plan to move forward on legislation with or without Republican support, these people said.

Ahead of committee action, Mr. Baucus intends to publicly release a draft of his bill, likely next week. The Baucus bill is designed to chart a moderate course on health care.

Among other things, the legislation would create a network of nonprofit health cooperatives to compete with private insurers, rather than establishing a taxpayer-backed public plan.

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He's moving with or without Republican support.

[joeybee12]

1. Moderate course? Making people pay and then NOT guaranteeing

the insurers won't deny their claims.

[eleny]

4. Yeah, with or without *anyone's* support...

Baucus getting all mavericky on us!

[global1]

2. But With Co-OOPS!.........

Yeah - oops!!!! Where's the Public Option - Maxy?

[saracat]

3. And NO Public Option. Surprise , surprise. Who cares if he doesn't have GOP support? This is crap

[berni_mccoy]

5. His Plan IS A DISGRACE. Read it for yourself here (LINK):

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/berni_mccoy/750

[SpartanDem]

6. It's about time

Baucus should've been doing this months ago

[saracat]

8. Doing what? This piece of garbage?

[SpartanDem]

10. Getting a bill out of committe

the finance bill was supposed to have the first reported

[Jefferson23]

7. What a complete failure, I can't stand these people any longer.

[SandWalker1984]

9. I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!

Coops and triggers are a cop out. It's handing money to the health insurance corporations on a silver platter.

I have an idea.

If Obama and the Democrats cheat us out of a public option equivalent to Medicare, without triggers, that gives every American the option of joining an affordable public plan....

If they give us instead the corporate designed Baccus plan that calls for MANDATES to buy PRIVATE insurance, without any controls or restrictions on what they can charge us....

then I say we should start an organization similar to MoveOn.org, one perhaps called ThrowThemOut.org that's goal is to THROW EVERY MEMBER OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE OUT OF OFFICE THAT REFUSES TO SUPPORT A TRUE PUBLIC CHOICE OPTION FOR EVERYONE IN THE SYSTEM.

Democrat or Republican, it makes no difference. You vote against us, we vote against you.

That's the only true power we have against the big corporate donations to Congress -- our votes. We can vote in elections, corporations cannot.

If we band together, along with all the groups and organizations that support a single payer or public option health care plan, then YES WE CAN throw the bums out of office!

We need to organize now so those in Congress understand the consequences of their actions.