Senator Max Baucus Is Crucial to the Health Insurance Industry's Continued Medicare Advantage Funding--But How Sympathetic Is He?

Everyone knows that House Ways and Means Subcommittee Chair Pete Stark is the Medicare Advantage program's biggest high-powered Congressional critic.The view of Medicare Advantage health plan payments, particularly for the controversial Private Fee For Service (PFFS) program, is more moderate in the Senate. Undoubtedly, the House Democrats will be more aggressive in the cuts they want than will