Republican accusations that the Senate health reform bill will hurt Medicare recipients by making drastic cuts to the program are “fear tactics,” U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said Thursday.
“I’m sad to see that our Republican colleagues have resorted to fear tactics in a desperate attempt to preserve the dysfunctional, costly [...]
Only 27% of voters nationwide favor a single-payer health care system where the federal government provides coverage for everyone. That’s down five points from August.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 62% are opposed to a single-payer system [...]
Hello. I’m sending a copy of a statement I made earlier today on the Senate floor. I point out the major flaws in the way supporters of Senator Reid’s health care bill are spinning a new analysis of the health care bill’s impact on insurance premiums. It says a lot [...]
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley said did not agree with his Oklahoma colleague Tom Coburn’s comment Tuesday that Medicare cuts proposed in the Senate health care bill would lead to earlier death for seniors.
But Grassley stopped well short of criticizing his fellow Republican, attributing the comment to a debate environment
that [...]
Although it might be difficult to imagine talk of potential health care reform and climate change legislation getting bumped from the nation’s front pages, the foundation for the next partisan cage match is already being built — and Iowa’s own U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is getting in on the ground [...]
Health Care Reform Update: Iowan Testifies Before Congress on High Cost of Health Care for Small Business House Committee on Energy and Commerce Website
The tragedy of the commons and national health care. The same thing? (Here's a link to a great free book which will make you an expert on the "tragedy of the commons")
[...]Roxanne Conlin, a Democrat challenging Sen. Charles Grassley, and U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley will hold roundtable events in Davenport and Waterloo on Monday.
The events will focus upon health care and jobs.
The first event will begin at 10:30 a.m. at the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, local 431 board [...]
Obama forbids lobbyists from being appointed to federal agency advisory boards and commissions.
Oh, also, forty-one Republican Senators are dead set against his health care bill that insures 36 million people because they were gonna do it under Bush II but they forgot and they really will do it next [...]
It was inevitable that conservatives would attack the Senate health care reform legislation over the proposed 0.5 percent hike in Medicare’s payroll tax for the country’s highest earners. Now they’re drilling down into the specifics.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has asked the Joint [...]
Health Care Reform Update: Science or Rationing?Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted since June.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that [...]
UI QuickCare, a walk-in health care clinic offered by UI Health Care, has opened a new location at 1843 Lower Muscatine Road, just north of Sycamore Mall, in Iowa City. Free parking is available at the new site, UI QuickCare - East.
UI QuickCare is available to anyone age 6 [...]
Former Gov. Terry Branstad’s endorsement of Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., in 2000 helped him win his seat and eventually allowed him to join fellow Democrats in moving their health care reform bill forward, GOP gubernatorial hopeful Bob Vander Plaats said Monday.
“Ben Nelson gave Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid [...]
Republican candidate for governor Bob Vander Plaats said today former Gov. Terry Branstad’s support of a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate helped pave the way for health care legislation that advanced in Congress Saturday.
Vander Plaats faulted Branstad, a Republican also running for governor, for endorsing and helping raise money for [...]
Iowa estimated to recover millions now spent on care for uninsured
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released new state-by-state projections of the impacts of passage or failure of the Democrats’ sweeping health care reform package.
According to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the projections demonstrate that “the health care [...]
Despite voter objection, Senate votes 60-39 to push government takeover of health care
In a late Saturday night vote, Harry Reid's 2,074 healthcare reform bill secured the 60 votes needed in the US Senate allowing debate to begin when Senators return on November 30.
Three Democrat senators whose support for the Reid [...]
Gov. Chet Culver spent the first part of his speech on thank yous and federal-level issues, noting that Congress nears passage of historic health-care reform.
But he soon turned to a list of accomplishments in Iowa: Expanding health care for children, lifting a ban on stem-cell research and helping veterans go [...]
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley opposed the procedural measure in the Senate to allow a health care proposal to advance, although the position mattered little in light of majority Democrats’ unified stance.
Grassley, a senior Republican and ranking member of the finance committee, said he opposed the Senate bill that combines his [...]
Senator Chuck Grassley issued the following comment about his opposition to the motion to proceed to H.R. 3590, the legislative vehicle for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009. The text of Senator Grassley’s floor speech is below the comment.
“This proposal is another big government [...]
I’ve already written that the health care reform bill that Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) introduced includes tax increases, some of which, start in 2010, while the legislation’s answer to health care reform won’t start until 2014.
The Senate’s version of the health care reform includes a mandate [...]
There are some in this country who support a government run heath care system. To those supporters I ask this simple question.
What has the government done that would give you confidence to believe it could run health care?
The funding of Social Security, the post office and the Med's, care' [...]
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