Baucus Says Health Information Technology Is Key to High-Quality, Affordable Care
Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.” This committee has held several hearings on overhauling the health care system to emphasize value over volume. Today, we will discuss a vital tool to assure this mission is completed: health information technology. Over the past decade, when you […]
Baucus-Hatch Letter to GAO on Exclusion Orders
The Honorable Gene L. DodaroComptroller General of the United StatesU.S. Government Accountability Office441 G. Street, NWWashington, DC 20548 Dear Mr. Dodaro: We are concerned about the process and capacity of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to carry out a key enforcement role that protects certain U.S. patent holders from imports that infringe their patents […]
Report Reveals Doctors Over-Referring Patients for Financial Gain
WASHINGTON –A report released today by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont), Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-Mich.) and House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) revealed a dramatic increase in the rates of doctors ordering anatomic pathology tests […]
Baucus Calls for Overhaul of Flawed Medicare Payment System
WASHINGTON –In a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said Medicare’s payment system is seriously flawed and must be overhauled to deliver better value for patients and taxpayers. The Senator reiterated his call from a hearing in May that Congress repeal the sustainable growth rate (SGR), which continues to threaten seniors’ access to […]
Baucus Statement on Improving the Flawed Medicare Payment System
Benjamin Franklin once said, “You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.” Those words ring true today as we work to repeal the sustainable growth rate, or SGR. This is the formula used to pay doctors who treat Medicare patients. It is antiquated, inefficient and flawed. Over the past […]
Baucus, Camp Talk Tax Reform in Visit to the Twin Cities
ST. PAUL, MN – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) met today with workers and executives at two St. Paul, Minnesota area businesses to discuss the need to overhaul America’s tax code in an effort to boost theeconomy and create more jobs. “The U.S. […]
Tax-Writing Chairmen Camp and Baucus Announce Minneapolis-St. Paul Stop on Tax Reform Tour
Washington, DC – Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) announced visits to two separate businesses in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota area. The visits are the first in a series of trips across the nation so the Chairmen of the two tax-writing committees can […]
Baucus Comment on Trade with Ecuador and the Generalized System of Preferences
MEMORANDUM To:From:Re: Reporters and EditorsSean Neary and Meaghan Smith for Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.)Baucus Comment on Trade with Ecuador and the Generalized System of Preferences Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today issued the following comment on trade with Ecuador and the Generalized System of Preferences: “Our trade partners have to […]
Baucus, Hatch Urge Colleagues to Provide Input on Tax Reform
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today proposed a “blank-slate” approach as a legislative starting point for tax reform and called on Senate colleagues to provide proposals for tax expenditures to add back and improve in a reformed tax code. “Over the past three years, the […]
Baucus Statement on Turning Health Care Quality Measures into Real Results
The American statistician W. Edwards Deming once said, “Quality is everyone’s responsibility.” In 1999, the nation received a wakeup call about our health care system. The Institute of Medicine published a landmark report titled, “To Err is Human.” It concluded that nearly 100,000 people die each year in hospitals due to preventable errors. That’s more […]