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Iowa State Senators: “Grassley Should Start Listening to Iowans”
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The Des Moines Register:
“The will of Iowans and the rest of America is marching steadily toward reform.”
The following is a guest opinion on health care reform by State Senators Jack Hatch and Joe Bolkcom that appeared in Saturday’s Des Moines Register. [I encountered it as a reprint at Blog for Iowa – Monte]
As we head into August, a few Washington lawmakers are standing in the way of health-care reform that America desperately needs. While patients are denied crucial treatment and families go bankrupt from medical bills, Sen. Charles Grassley and a cadre of his Senate colleagues have provoked a stir by steadfastly refusing to support the most essential piece of President Barack Obama’s proposal: a public health-insurance option. We think it’s time for Grassley to start listening to Iowans and work with the president for real health-care reform.
A public health-insurance option would introduce much needed competition into the health-insurance market, extending quality care to as many as 300,000 Iowans, while providing incentives to insurance companies to offer their current customers a better deal. Unfortunately, in a July 30 Des Moines Register editorial, Grassley said he opposes giving Americans the choice of a public option “because it is a pathway to a completely government-run system.” Read the rest of this entry »
Written by Monte
August 10, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Posted in Politics
Tagged with Barack Obama, Charles Grassley, Chuck Grassley, Health care, health care reform, Health insurance, health insurance reform, Insurance, Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Senate, Jack Hatch, Joe Bolkcom, Medicare, public insurance, public insurance option, public option, United States, US Senate