Thanks for this Face. Didn't know physicians were on board as well. I gotta catch up...
Hope you're on the mend after that operation!

good stuff, thanks for staying on top of it. The legislative branch represents lobbyists and corporations. Maybe we should add a fourth branch of government that represents Americans.

You are exactly right. Max Baucus is one of the biggest whores in Washington right now and he's in bed with the insurance companies. He's in business for himself and so as long as the cash keeps flowing to him, the John can do what they want with him. That's the way prostitution works as we all know.

The number one thing they want from their whore is for the alleged health care "reform" debate to occur without discussing any real change of the healthcare system beyond government subsidies for the insurance companies so they'll cover more people at greater cost and provide less medical care to the public than single payer would. That's the long and short of it.

There are other whores out there supporting Baucus, but he's the lead ho on the job in the Senate. He richly deserves a primary challenge and to be sent back to his home state where he belongs.

From Open Secrets, here are Baucus's top five donors:

Schering-Plough Corp $72,200
New York Life Insurance $52,900
KKR & Co $50,500
Goldman Sachs $48,900
DaVita Inc $48,350

Schering-Plough, New York Life and Davita are part of the health care industry. KKR is the major part-owner of the Hospital Corporation of America.

Here's a link to the video of the Baucus 8 being hauled out and some excellent facts that should have been heard above the laughter. This is one of the sites for http://www.prosperityagenda.us/node/78

From now on, Baucus' name should always be followed by a parenthesis: "Senator Max Baucus, D, Montana (Insurance $590,185, Health Professionals $537,141, Pharmaceuticals/Health Products $524,813)" showing how much funding he's been getting from the healthcare industry. It's a staggering amount and we need to brand him with it. The amounts can be checked periodically at opensecrets.org.

If we ever needed grassroots, it is NOW.

Kudos to you, Ed Schultz, & all who are helping to make sure single payer is on the table. Defeating big Pharma & the insurance companies is crucial. Our voices must be heard!

Here is a little blip on what is happening to middle America. My son, a doctor just finishing up his residency in NYC, had an ENT order a CT with contrast for a potentially dire medical problem. Once there, the hospital said they could not perform his CT because his insurance approved it WITHOUT contrast. He then said he would take financial responsibility and they still denied him the test! He was put on hold for another week. Who is driving the train here?

Good post. I think if Medicare recipients were suddenly denied their easy access to health care tomorrow, we would have reform in one week. I don't know what it is going to take otherwise.

I just called and asked Sen. F. U. to include single payer representatives at the May 12th meeting.

I tried to call a little after 5:00 eastern time, and the call was answered like this: "Sen. Baucus office, can you hold" and I held for several minutes until I hung up. Maybe this means they were getting slammed with calls...Hope so!