Baucus Statement on Improving the Medicare Physician Payment System
The best-selling business author Tom Peters once said, “If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.” We should keep those words in mind today as we examine the method Medicare uses to determine physician payments, the sustainable growth rate, otherwise known as the SGR. For the past ten years, this flawed formula […]
Baucus Comments on Accusations that IRS Targeted Political Groups for Greater Oversight
MEMORANDUM To: Reporters and Editors From: The Communications Office of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) Re: Baucus Comments on Accusations that IRS Targeted Political Groups for Greater Oversight Senate Finance […]
Baucus, Hatch Call on Health Care Providers to Pitch in and Provide Ideas to Improve Medicare Physician Payment System
WASHINGTON –Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today called on health care physicians and other providers from across the country to bring ideas to the table on how to improve Medicare’s physician payment system. In a sharply-worded letter to health care providers, the senators called the current Medicare […]
Baucus and Camp Team up to Launch Taxrefrom.gov
WASHINGTON – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) today teamed up to launch TaxReform.gov, a new website dedicated to obtaining input from the American public on tax reform. “America’s tax code today is complex, inefficient and acting as a brake on our economy. Chairman Camp […]
Baucus Comment on Transparency in Health Care Costs
MEMORANDUM To:From:Date:Re: Reporters and EditorsSean Neary and Meaghan Smith for Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.)May 8, 2013Baucus Comment on Transparency in Health Care Costs Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today commented on the hospital billing data released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The data showed large, random variations […]
Baucus Comment on the Nominations of Mike Froman for USTR and Penny Pritzker for Commerce Secretary
MEMORANDUM To:From:Date:Re: Reporters and EditorsSean Neary and Meaghan Smith for Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.)May 2, 2013Baucus Comment on the Nominations of Mike Froman for USTR and Penny Pritzker for Commerce Secretary Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) issued the following comment today on the administration’s nominations of Mike Froman to be […]
Baucus Applauds Senate Confirmation of HHS and Treasury Officials
Washington – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today applauded the Senate’s confirmation of William Schultz to be general counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Christopher Meade to be general counsel of the Department of the Treasury. During a hearing last year, Senator Baucus stressed the importance of these […]
Baucus Statement Regarding Problems with the Internet Sales Tax Bill
This bill will hurt small businesses – not just in Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon, but all across the country. This bill will let one state go after businesses in another state. This bill could give any state the right to make businesses across the country collect sales taxes for that state when selling products […]
Baucus Sees Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement as Major Spark to U.S. Economy
WASHINGTON – At a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said Congress must capitalize on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement to benefit from the fast pace of economic growth in many Asian economies, boost U.S. exports and create jobs in Montana and across the country. Senator Baucus also said he is […]
Baucus Pushes for High-Standard Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
In 1803, with the Louisiana Purchase on the horizon, President Thomas Jefferson sent a confidential letter to Congress. He was seeking the appropriation of $2,500 for “the purpose of extending the external commerce of the United States.” He then instructed Captain Meriwether Lewis and Second Lieutenant William Clark to explore the newly acquired territory. Jefferson […]