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Published at www.nejm.org June 10, 2009 (10.1056/NEJMp0904854)

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In their quest to enact health care reform legislation, Democrats' major challenge is securing the money to pay for greatly expanded insurance coverage and more government regulation in the face of strong Republican opposition and an unsettled private sector. President Barack Obama has emphasized time and again, recently in a letter to Senators Max Baucus (D-MT) and Edward Kennedy (D-MA), that "health care reform must not add to our deficits over the next 10 years — it must be at least deficit neutral and put America on a path to reducing the deficit over time." As the administration and its . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Mr. Iglehart is a national correspondent for the Journal.

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