Issue Position: Improving Health Care for All Americans

Issue Position

Chuck Grassley recognizes that the delivery of health care services in Rural America differs from the urban centers scattered across the nation. As a long-time advocate to fix Medicare's flawed reimbursement rate, Grassley is working to create payment incentives that reward the quality of services, versus quantity. Grassley's efforts would help states like Iowa to recruit physicians and expand access to quality care for Iowans.

And, when the health care debate transfixed a nation for the better part of a year, it was Chuck Grassley working tirelessly to instill Iowa common sense solutions in a process mired by partisanship. The Wall Street Journal noticed Grassley's efforts to restrict deficit spending and Kim Strassel made note in her July 17, 2009 column during the bipartisan negotiations.

The new health care reform law is the only major social reform policy that has passed without bipartisan support of the U.S. Congress. In the end, the law cut Medicare by half a trillion dollars, raised taxes by half a trillion dollars, and did nothing to cut premiums for hard working Americans. Once fully implemented, the law is expected to cost more than $2.5 trillion.

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