According to a report funded by the insurance industry, premiums for health insurance would rise by $4000 by 2019 under the Baucus bill, which is set to go to a vote by the Senate Finance Committee on ...

As of today, probably the biggest hurdle standing in the way of health care reform is the Senate Finance Committee, or more specifically, the group of six centrist and center-right senators on the ...

Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) has proposed a debt reduction plan that would save $3 trillion over the next 10 years and includes as much as $500 million in savings from federal healthcare programs, such ...

The groups have sent letters to Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., the ranking minority member of the Senate Finance Committee, asking that he drop his threats to block the nomination. Baucus said in a ...

Why It Matters The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder explains. "That Baucus would ignore the conflict of the interest or so easily dismiss it calls into question his judgment and his ethics. That's a scandal," ...

Senator Kent Conrad today made an unusual request of the Congressional Budget Office: a 20-year cost estimate on the latest draft of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus’ bill reforming the ...

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has emerged as the somewhat surprising champion of a health care overhaul in Congress. But some... Baucus At The Center Of Health Care Debate When Barack ...

One provision in Chairman Max Baucus’s original Chairman’s Mark is a new tax on so-called “Cadillac” health insurance plans. The original Baucus mark calls for insurers to pay a 35% tax on plans that ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The Max S. Baucus Institute is expanding its Montana footprint with the addition of a ...

HELENA - U.S. Sen. Max Baucus and wife Wanda said Thursday that they are divorcing after 25 years of marriage, bringing closure to speculation that they have been separated since last year. In a joint ...

Sen. Max Baucus said Monday the nation's credit remains sound despite a rating agency's downgrade that sent financial markets into a tailspin. In the wake of a contentious budget-cutting agreement ...