The Latest News: MT

 

  • Downgrading American Medical Care -- American Spectator
    July 03, 2009
    The changes will affect everyone. Health care spending is increasing at more moderate rates than in previous decades. Politicians have promised that if you like your health plan, you can keep it.
  • Nonstop service to Minneapolis safe for now -- Helena Independent
    July 03, 2009
    First, the plane got bigger. Baucus office learned (Tuesday) that NWA has officially restored the direct flight. Mercer said this week he was contacted several weeks ago by a frequent traveler who said he couldnt book a nonstop flight this fall - everything was being routed through Salt Lake.
  • Sen. Baucus threatens to make hospitals dirty, unsafe, unfriendly and unavailable -- Business Word
    July 03, 2009
    from hospitals and insurers so that he can pretend that his health insurance reforms will cost less than $1 trillion over 10 years. Politico reports that Baucus thinks hospitals and insurers are dumb enough to believe that 46 million uninsured folks will become profitable customers under a nationalized health care system.
  • Actual change necessary for health care reform Thursday, July 2, 2009 -- Missoulian
    July 03, 2009
    In this surprising and Orwellian twist, Baucus gives a not-so-subtle warning to health care-for-all advocates that they alone can topple meaningful health care reform by, well, advocating for meaningful health care reform.