The fate of health care reform this year rests in the hands of a stoic Montana senator with a reputation for confounding his party and a zeal for bipartisanship that many in his caucus don’t share.
To put it bluntly, Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus makes the liberal wing of the Democratic Party nervous — because they don’t know which Baucus will show up in the clutch.
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Having Mr. Baucus head this committee is a big joke- he is a bought and paid prostitute of the Insurance lobbyists. The for profit component needs to be heavily regulated by the government if there is no single payer of government option- which means costs are set by the government…