Senator Grassley says he cares about a bipartisan solution to health insurance reform. Working Iowans trusted that Senator Grassley was doing his best to produce bipartisan reform, as one of the heads of the influential Senate Finance Committee.
But while while Senator Grassley was holding town hall meetings across the state to sell Iowans on his effort to produce bipartisan health care reform, he was attacking health care reform to take in cash from fiercely partisan campaign donors.
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This shameless attempt to profit from his anti-health care reform agenda was uncovered by Washington Post writer Ezra Klein You can download Senator Grassley's actual fundraising letter here: grassleyfundraising.pdf
Grassley writes in this letter: "I ask your immediate support in helping me defeat 'Obama-care.'" Far from being bipartisan, this letter pandering to the concerns and fears of right wing extremists paints Senator Grassley's position as clearly against reform. In Senator Grassley's own words, "The simple truth is that I am and always have been opposed to the Obama Administration's plans to nationalize health care. Period."
After assaulting the health insurance reform many of his Iowan constituents support, Grassley ends the letter: "Your contribution of $100 or more today will help me continue to build a campaign war chest and launch my re-election effort on a sound footing."
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With the average family premium in Iowa predicted to rise to a total of over $21,000 by 2019 without reform, 310,000 uninsured Iowans, and more medical bankruptcies every day, the people of Iowa deserve better than empty promises. While Senator Grassley continues to block reform to fund his own political ambitions, Iowa's families slip deeper into debt. Every day that health insurance reform is delayed means more money, more sickness, and more people's lives.
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