Baucus Would Modify Bill to Provide Aid to Poor

[Elmore Furth]

Max Baucus is proposing changes to the healthcare bill adding $28 billion in subsidies to the poor and cutting taxes to high end policies to smooth the way for passage" of the bill through the Finance Committee.

This is where the rubber meets the road.

September 22, 2009
WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, said Monday that he would modify his health care bill to provide more generous assistance to moderate-income Americans, to help them buy insurance.
In addition, Mr. Baucus said he would make changes to reduce the impact of a proposed tax on high-end health insurance policies.
Mr. Baucus, Democrat of Montana, disclosed his plans in an interview a day before the committee is to begin meeting to debate and vote on the sweeping legislation, which is intended to remake the nation's health care system and guarantee insurance for millions of Americans.
Mr. Baucus said the changes showed that he had heard the criticism of his bill from colleagues, who asserted that many people would be required to buy insurance who could not afford it - even with federal subsidies to help defray the cost of premiums.


Key Senator Says He Will Alter Health Proposal

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

1. In other words, taking more money out of our treasury to fill ins co coffers...

[emulatorloo]

3. Rockefeller and Kerry are on this committee too. They have pretty much said they are going to "Fix"

this crap "Baucus Bill". They are not the only ones on the committee who are pissed with how he handled it. Baucus is not in much a position to push anything right now.

[Hawkeye-X]

2. Fuck off, Baucus, you FAILED to do your sworn duty.

Sit down, shut up, and vote YEA on whatever we amend on your crappy bill. The proposed fix to the Baucus bill should be strip everything out of his original bill and amend it to follow HR 676, not 3200.

Hawkeye-X

[BlooInBloo]

4. Hush, Baucus. You made yourself irrelevant.

[sandnsea]

5. Then just replace it with the HELP bill

move it out and let's get this thing to conference.