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Sen. Grassley: “Bipartisan” means “no public option”
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Aw, c’mon, Senator.
72% of Americans want health care reform to include a “public option.” Nearly three-fourths of the nation. Including more than half of all Republicans.
Sen. Grassley, however, insists that the “public option” must be killed if there is to be a “bipartisan” bill.
But wait. Isn’t America already bipartisan on this? Even Iowans, Mr. Grassley’s constituents, support a public option 56% to 37%.
Mr. Grassley wants the Senate to ignore what a bipartisan majority of American people want in order to get what a minority of U.S. Senators want.
Ah. Then, he’d maintain, we’d have something bipartisan. In Washington. Hooray for that.
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By the way, Senator Grassley is the 6th-largest recipient of health care industry money in the U.S. Senate.
Looks like the industry’s getting what it wants from Mr. Grassley.
Looks like Americans—and Iowans—aren’t.
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Senator Grassley, give us a choice
Here’s the ad that Health Care for America has begun running across the nation. This is the Iowa version.
Multiple polls from news organizations and even anti-reform groups unanimously agree that nearly three of every four Americans want a public option to compete with insurance companies. Even among Republicans, 50% favor it.
Our own Sen. Grassley, unfortunately, may be the most influential opponent of the public option in the Senate. Insurance companies stand to make billions off the Grassley approach.
But ordinary Iowans want a choice. Care to write Sen. Grassley (or another Senator or Representative) a note? Click in the contact box in the right sidebar.
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Grassley, Specter support contempt vote
Being a nearly-lifetime Iowan, I am especially grateful to Iowa’s Senator Charles Grassley for taking a principled and rather courageous position recently:
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Dazzling: Olbermann indicts elected officials on healthcare-funded campaigns
Watch this video!
Keith Olbermann reveals the numbers behind those Senators and Congressmen and women who have funded their elections with health industry money, and who now deliver the goods by killing the public option.
I believe that Iowa’s own Chuck Grassley (who lately has joined in the “death panels” fabrication) is among the top ten recipients of health industry contributions in the Senate. Sen. Max Baucus, chair of the Senate Finance Committee, received more campaign money from the industry than from his home state.
The public option is the single greatest cost-cutting measure of this entire process. It creates competition for an industry that operates in near-monopoly conditions. It takes the need to make a profit out of the choices doctors offer their patients.
It is good for Americans but bad for health industry millionaires. And the CEOs are calling in their debts.
The politicians who rode industry money into office know what’s at stake: choke the the public option, or find other money to fund your re-election.
Write your elected officials today. Tell them you want the option to choose insurance that doesn’t connect care with profits. You can find their addresses in the right sidebar, under the heading “E-mail.”
They’ve got the money. But we cast the votes.
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