In 2009, Max Baucus Had People Arrested for Demanding Single Payer. Now He Supports It

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

Former Montana Sen. Max Baucus made headlines—and some people's heads explode—on Friday after it was reported that the powerful Democrat who once stood so firmly against single-payer healthcare now thinks it's a solution whose time has come....

In 2009, Baucus was singing a rather different tune when he was chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, one of the most powerful positions in Congress during the healthcare debate that year. Baucus declared single payer "off the table" and had single-payer proponents arrested after they disrupted a committee hearing. Those arrested were later called the "Baucus 8."

To read more:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/09/08/2009-max-baucus-had-people-arrested-demanding-single-payer-now-he-supports-it

[guillaumeb]

1. In addition:

As Common Dreams has reported, this rapid shift in opinion among the Democratic leadership comes in the face of tremendous grassroots enthusiasm for Medicare for All. According to a recent poll, 62 percent of Americans now believe it is the federal government's responsibility to provide healthcare to all Americans.

[NCjack]

2. He thinks we have no memory of his treachery -- he sold us for campaign donations. Most likely,

he is planning to remake himself into a quasi-populist and enter the DEM presidential primary for 2018.

[guillaumeb]

3. One hopes not.

Perhaps he is merely following the poll numbers, and the parade, in hopes of getting in front of the parade.