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Max Baucus
Senator Max Baucus [OpenSecrets]

Total from health & insurance interests: $3,973,485
Max Baucus (D-MT) chairs the Senate Finance Committee, which plays a huge role with health reform legislation. He has frequently dismissed the importance of a public option, saying, "There's an awful lot more here than the public option," [1] and, "We can achieve the objective [of health care reform] without it." [2] When his committee's draft plan came out, the Washington Post's Ezra Klein reported, "There's no public plan mentioned anywhere in the document." [3]
Evan Bayh
Senator Evan Bayh [OpenSecrets]

Total from health & insurance interests: $1,565,088
When asked on Fox News about the public option, Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) replied, "I'm agnostic on that." [1] In another interview, he used right-wing talking points to stoke fears of "socialized medicine." [2]
Kent Conrad
Senator Kent Conrad [OpenSecrets]

Total from health & insurance interests: $2,154,200
Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) is the architect of the "co-op" plan, a watered-down "alternative" for the public option. He explicitly used right-wing frames in promoting the measure, saying that "the co-op structure has some appeal because it's not government control." [1]
Dianne Feinstein
Senator Dianne Feinstein [OpenSecrets]

Total from health & insurance interests: $1,749,887
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said on CNN on June 21, “I don’t know that [Obama] has the votes right now." She said she was most concerned about the "cost" of a public option. [1]
John Kerry
Senator John Kerry [OpenSecrets]

Total from health & insurance interests: $8,994,077
While Senator John Kerry (D-MA) has said in public that he supports a public option, the Huffington Post reports that "In a closed-door meeting of Senate Finance Committee Democratic members and their staff Wednesday evening, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) suggested that if the committee bill didn't have enough votes for a public option it include a ten-year delay between passage of health care reform and the implementation of a public option."[1]
Mary Landrieu
Senator Mary Landrieu [OpenSecrets]

Total from health & insurance interests: $1,653,943
Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) has said: "No, I'm not open to it. I'm not open to a public option. ... I will remain open to a compromise, a full compromise. Public option is not something that I support. I don't think it's the right way to go." [1]
Joe Lieberman
Senator Joe Lieberman [OpenSecrets]

Total from health & insurance interests: $3,308,621
Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) has made no bones about his opposition to the public option. Lieberman point blank told a Bloomberg News reporter: "I don't favor a public option, and I don't favor a public option because I think there's plenty of competition in the private insurance market."[1]
Ben Nelson
Senator Ben Nelson [OpenSecrets]

Total from health & insurance interests: $2,214,715
Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) not only opposes the public option, but Congressional Quarterly reports that the "inclusion of a public plan in legislation [is] a 'deal-breaker' for him." The same article reports on his plotting to "assemble a coalition of like-minded centrists opposed to the creation of a public plan." [1]