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After months of wrangling with Republicans over the appropriate role of government in health care, the Senate Finance Committee's 13 Democrats were joined by a lone Republican, Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine, on October 13 in approving a reform bill that would establish a mandate for most individuals to obtain health insurance. The 14-to-9 vote by the panel, chaired by Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), moved the reform process to the next step: blending the Finance Committee bill with a more liberal one previously approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. Snowe said that her decision about whether . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Mr. Iglehart is a national correspondent for the Journal.

This article (10.1056/NEJMp0909696) was published on October 14, 2009, at NEJM.org.

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