From the original NPR.org article: "<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/text/s.php?sId=113335110&m=1" >Tuesday's day-long gathering of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, where chairman Max Baucus has spent months lowering expectations, offered a sense of just how dim prospects for meaningful systemic change have become.
Baucus, the insurance-industry representative who doubles as a Democratic senator from Montana, long ago rejected the notion that a robust public option might be a part of any healthcare reform measure that would pass the Senate.
His committee, on Tuesday, agreed blocking moves by two Democratic senators, West Virginia's Jay Rockefeller and New York's Chuck Schumer, to amend the finance committee's plan to include a government-backed alternative to private insurance."
So how do these politicians represent anyone but the corporations that pay their campaign bills?
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