From hearings and press conferences in Washington, D.C.
The Senate continues its work on health reform with a new face in the crowd: Sen. Paul Kirk (D-Mass.), who was sworn in on Friday as interim replacement for the late Sen. Ted Kennedy until a special election can be held in January. Meanwhile, the Senate Finance Committee continues [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Baucus’
September 29, 2009
New Name, Same Game: The Policy & Practice Podcast
September 21, 2009
A Time to Amend… the Policy & Practice Podcast
Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.)
From Washington, D.C.:
After a long summer of waiting, journalists, policy wonks, and the public can finally start poring over the details of the Senate Finance Committee’s version of health reform legislation. But the work is really just beginning for the committee’s chairman, Sen. Max Baucus (D.-Mont.), who this week will have to [...]
June 23, 2009
Two Minutes on Health Reform: The Policy & Practice Podcast
from meetings, press conferences, and briefings in Washington, D.C.
The details are beginning to emerge on health care reform–and to keep you up to speed, we present the Policy & Practice Podcast.
Policy & Practice Podcast 6/23
EGMN’s health policy reporters and editors–Joyce Frieden, Alicia Ault, Mary Ellen Schneider, Denise Napoli, Keith Haglund, and yours truly–scour the daybooks [...]
March 19, 2009
Health Care Reform 2009 in Soundbites
From a health care briefing with Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation, Families USA and the National Federation of Independent Businesses, Washington
This is how Sen. Chuck Grassley, the ranking minority member of the Senate finance committee, started out this morning’s media briefing on health reform:
“We are not so far down the road [...]
March 3, 2009
On the Menu: Health Reform
From a newsmaker breakfast with Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation, Families USA, and the National Federation of Independent Business, Washington, D.C.:
Sen. Baucus was short on details but long on optimism that a comprehensive health reform bill would come up for a vote this June…or maybe July, anyway. At today’s ‘Health Care Reform [...]
February 3, 2009
Real Politik, Montana-Style
From the AcademyHealth/Health Affairs National Health Policy Conference, Washington, D.C.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat, is known for being a basically congenial kind of guy. But even he has his limits. The Senator delivered a 20-minute or so speech on what he deemed the rosy prospects for health reform in 2009, remarking that “it [...]
