Max Baucus (D-MT), chair of the Senate Finance Committee, has seen enough of Rep. Paul Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity” to declare it dead on arrival. In a statement to reporters on Tuesday, Baucus ripped into the Republican proposal to privatize Medicare while slashing benefits for seniors over time as a betrayal of the program’s core mission.
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