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Volume 361:1817-1819 November 5, 2009 Number 19
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Doctors, Patients, and the Need for Health Care Reform
Max Baucus

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One Montanan wrote to me recently about her father's death. Six months away from qualifying for Medicare coverage, he did not have health insurance or the cash to pay for recommended heart surgery. He died on Christmas Day.

Since I began my current fight for health care reform 2 years ago, I have heard from hundreds of Montanans from across the state. So many of them tell heartbreaking personal accounts of tragedy and suffering that have resulted from our broken health care system. In nearly a century of effort, this country has never been as close as we are today . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Senator Baucus (D-MT) is the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.

This article (10.1056/NEJMp0910001) was published on October 21, 2009, at NEJM.org.



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