Opponents of a public health insurance option -- including Grassley -- contend it would drive private health insurers out of the market.
"Government is not a competitor, it's a predator," he said to applause. "Then everyone else's premiums go up, and pretty soon, there's not any private insurance."
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As Senator Grassley states, government is not a competitor but a predator. Private Health Insurance will be a thing of the past if this goes through.
Some of you may be cheering that outcome on, but just wait until government is the only insurer on the block. You won't be cheering then.
Immie
The healthcare lobbyists got to Grassley.
He knows who his masters are.
They donated $2.5 million dollars to him.