Sen. Max Baucus angered many Democrats back home in Montana when he voted last week against a "public option" in the health care reform legislation working its way through the Senate Finance Committee. Full Story »
Posted by Kristin Gorski - via Google News (Lobbying)
An interesting angle is reported here from a local Montana newspaper. If anyone has wondered what Senator Max Baucus, Finance Committee Chair, has been thinking regarding a health care reform bill, this article has some answers. While short on statistics and facts, it is a worthwhile analysis, nevertheless.
“Health care reform is a 10-act play, and you do not write a review of the play until you see the end of all the acts,” Sabato said. “We don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes. (Democrats) do have a plan for a bill, and they have a plan for how they’re going to get this done, but we won’t know what that is until it’s done.”
Key comment: these bills take a long time to become law. The constant need for negotiation and compromise is the way Congress works — for better or worse.