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Published at www.nejm.org September 23, 2009 (10.1056/NEJMp0908719)

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In an effort to attract Republican support, Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), chair of the Senate Finance Committee, stripped his health care reform proposal of some of its most contentious elements — the creation of a public insurance option, the imposition of an employer mandate, and the provision of physician payments for counseling Medicare beneficiaries about end-of-life care. But when Baucus unveiled his bill on September 16, he did so without any Republican support, in the face of wariness from some Democrats, and with more than 500 proposed amendments that his committee will consider when it begins to mark up the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Mr. Iglehart is a national correspondent for the Journal.

This article (10.1056/NEJMp0908719) was published on September 23, 2009, at NEJM.org.

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