Baucus answers questions on health care reform

Tim Leeds Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com

U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., spent an hour on the telephone Tuesday answering questions from around the state about the health care reform legislation being written in a committee he chairs. “The real goal here is to lower the cost of health care in America, or at least lower the rate of growth of health care costs,” Baucus said at one point. The event was a statewide town hall meeting conducted by telephone. AARP Montana sponsored the conference, in which Montanans could listen in by telephone and, by pressing som...