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American Prospect blogger Ezra Klein has a scoop: Every Democratic member of the Senate Finance Committee got some homework. That includes our own senior U.S. senator, Jeff Bingaman who serves on the Senate Finance Committee.
[Montana Democratic Senator Max] Baucus has given every Democrat on the committee a different piece of health reform to focus in on. Sources say that some are taking them more seriously than others, and obviously no single senators gets the last word. But the assignments have been a way for Baucus to delegate some of the work and involve all the Democrats on the Finance Committee.
So what does Bingaman have to concentrate on? According to Klein, “Pay-for-Performance, Bundled Payments, IHS.”
I’m guessing IHS is Indian Health Service.
Looks like Bingaman and his staff will have some reading to do on healthcare.
