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)
The Tribune went to a range of sources to give us an impression of whether Baucus is publicly hedging on the public health insurance option. Mostly state-level, this was an interesting, insightful and well balanced report.
Eric Feaver is president of MEA-MFT, the state’s largest labor union. He said he sees little evidence that Baucus was ever serious about creating a public health insurance option. “I’ve seen no leadership on the part of Sen. Baucus to move the public option. He certainly had that opportunity, and he has chosen not to,” Feaver said. “He’s done everything in the finance committee to make sure the public option wasn’t in the construct.”
