Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee, insisted today that there will be no bipartisan agreement on his panel’s health care reform legislation if it includes a public option.
“We don’t need any more government in the medicine.”
The public disagrees with this sentiment, of course–notwithstanding Grassley’s comedic, grandfather-like tendency to use teh unnecessary definite article. It’s worth noting, too, that there’s a great deal of terrain between bipartisan agreement on the principle of a health care co-ops and Republican support for the entire reform package.
