Senator Chuck Grassley is probably the highest profile member of the Senate Finance Committee, considered a key panel in health care reform. He is one of the Gang of Six, a Republican from Iowa. He has been especially dangerous to the prospect of real health care reform. At one point he even endorsed Sarah Palin's nutty idea of Death Panels. Here are a couple of grafs from Dakota Farmer outlining Grassley's latest Pearls of Wisdom. Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, says the outpouring of anger at town hall meetings this month has fundamentally altered the nature of the health-care debate and convinced him that lawmakers should consider drastically scaling back the scope of the effort. Grassley says the public has rejected the far-reaching proposals Democrats have put on the table, viewing them as overly expensive precursors to a government takeover of health care.
"People are signaling that we ought to slow up and find out where we are and don't spend so much money and don't get us so far into debt," said Grassley. The ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, Grassley hopes the panel can draft a better, less costly plan capable of winning broad support from Democrats and Republicans.
Grassley has had no problem voting for wars that cost billons of dollars each month.
Incidentally, Grassley has also said, no matter what Judiciary cranks out on health care reform, he ain't gonna vote for it. No wonder. Look at the bribes he has taken. (Source: Open Secrets)
As you can see, most of the bribes are from health industry companies and are self-explanatory. DaVita, Inc., specializes in kidney disease and dialysis.
