http://okhenderson.com/2009/09/16/grassley-on-baucus-bill/ Semi-official Blog of Radio Iowa Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:23:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://okhenderson.com/2009/09/16/grassley-on-baucus-bill/#comment-5 Isa Lube Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:24:36 +0000 http://okhenderson.com/2009/09/grassley-on-baucus-bill.html#comment-5 Yes, wasn’t that the plan to begin with…it was to distribute all the wealth of the rich..and you know, Hollywood people have all their lawyers so they don’t get hitched (pay high taxes) so who is left, we, the middle class…so then we barely make it…Well, we can think who??? You guess!!! Tax increase by our lovely government. Thanks a lot. Yes, wasn’t that the plan to begin with…it was to distribute all the wealth of the rich..and you know, Hollywood people have all their lawyers so they don’t get hitched (pay high taxes) so who is left, we, the middle class…so then we barely make it…Well, we can think who??? You guess!!! Tax increase by our lovely government. Thanks a lot.

]]> http://okhenderson.com/2009/09/16/grassley-on-baucus-bill/#comment-4 Cleveland Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:56:07 +0000 http://okhenderson.com/2009/09/grassley-on-baucus-bill.html#comment-4 It appears that Senator Grassley is up to the same old tricks that he used when he was in the Iowa Legislature. I was a public interest lobbyist during four sessions of the legislature when Mr. Grassley was a representative there. It was impossible to get a straight answer from him then just as it is now. However, there is no doubt that his aim is to sink any health care reform that doesn't benefit the insurance industry. The proposal of the Senate Finance Committee which Senator Grassley helped to form is the biggest cash give away to the insurance industry ever invented. It mandates three very expensive changes to all health insurance policies sold in the U.S. and then requires that everyone must have insurance. Covering people with pre-existing conditions, removing caps on total insurance coverage, and not allowing termination of coverage will all cause increases in health insurance premiums. So, all insurance companies will increase their rates, then the public will be asked to subsidize the premiums of lower income families and persons who can't afford the higher premiums. It's just like his support of repealing the personal property taxes in Iowa in 1973 sounded good to his constituents, but it in fact raised real property taxes. Just like the personal property tax issue, the Senate Finance committee approach is a cheap trick and will create the biggest tax paid windfall for the health insurance industry in our history. So recognize Senator Grassley's efforts for what they are;a black widow approach to legislation. He'll embrace it and embrace it until he kills it or empties our treasury by gifting billions and billions to the health insurance companies. The health reform bill America needs is House Resolution 3200. That bill mandates the same reforms in health insurance policies, but makes sure no tax money is spent on abortions, directly prohibits covering illegal aliens, closes the "doughnut hole" in the Medicare drug program, and creates an insurance exchange with the public option to help hold down health insurance premiums. It appears that Senator Grassley is up to the same old tricks that he used when he was in the Iowa Legislature. I was a public interest lobbyist during four sessions of the legislature when Mr. Grassley was a representative there.
It was impossible to get a straight answer from him then just as it is now. However, there is no doubt that his aim is to sink any health care reform that doesn’t benefit the insurance industry. The proposal of the Senate Finance Committee which Senator Grassley helped to form is the biggest cash give away to the insurance industry ever invented. It mandates three very expensive changes to all health insurance policies sold in the U.S. and then requires that everyone must have insurance. Covering people with pre-existing conditions, removing caps on total insurance coverage, and not allowing termination of coverage will all cause increases in health insurance premiums. So, all insurance companies will increase their rates, then the public will be asked to subsidize the premiums of lower income families and persons who can’t afford the higher premiums. It’s just like his support of repealing the personal property taxes in Iowa in 1973 sounded good to his constituents, but it in fact raised real property taxes. Just like the personal property tax issue, the Senate Finance committee approach is a cheap trick and will create the biggest tax paid windfall for the health insurance industry in our history. So recognize Senator Grassley’s efforts for what they are;a black widow approach to legislation. He’ll embrace it and embrace it until he kills it or empties our treasury by gifting billions and billions to the health insurance companies.
The health reform bill America needs is House Resolution 3200. That bill mandates the same reforms in health insurance policies, but makes sure no tax money is spent on abortions, directly prohibits covering illegal aliens, closes the “doughnut hole” in the Medicare drug program, and creates an insurance exchange with the public option to help hold down health insurance premiums.

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