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Action Alert: Tell Sen. Baucus To Stop Pressuring CBO

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), who ruled single-payer “off the table” before he even started considering healthcare reform, is now pressuring the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to favorably judge his health plan as financially sound–even though it isn’t. According to CongressDaily (2/25), Baucus, other lawmakers, and “some special interest groups have not been…

Sen. Baucus: We Need Accurate Numbers not “Creative” Figuring

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), who ruled single payer “off the table” before he even started considering healthcare reform, is now trying to pressure the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to judge the Baucus health plan financially sound. Baucus held a Finance Committee hearing last Wednesday (2/25/09) at which the sole witness was CBO…

Americans Should Not Stand for Lock-down on Single-Payer Discussion

By Laura Bonham– As an ardent advocate of single-payer healthcare for many years, I am more than a little frustrated by Washington insiders—beholden to healthcare corporations—telling the American people that passing single-payer healthcare reform, specifically HR. 676, the United States National Health Care Act, can’t happen. The fact is they are standing in the way…