Ed Schultz on Grassley's ' No Public Option'

iframe height="339" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/31532839#31532839" frameborder="0" width="425" scrolling="no"/iframe p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN-TOP: 5px; WIDTH: 425px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; COLOR: #999; FONT-SIZE: 11px"Visit msnbc.com for a style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #999 1px dotted; HEIGHT: 13px; COLOR: #5799db !important; FONT-WEIGHT: normal !important; TEXT-DECORATION: none !important" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/"Breaking News/a, a style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #999 1px dotted; HEIGHT: 13px; COLOR: #5799db !important; FONT-WEIGHT: normal !important; TEXT-DECORATION: none !important" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032507"World News/a, and a style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #999 1px dotted; HEIGHT: 13px; COLOR: #5799db !important; FONT-WEIGHT: normal !important; TEXT-DECORATION: none !important" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032072"News about the Economy/a/pbr /br /br /br /br /From a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/grassleys-government-health-insurance-hundreds-of-dollars-a-month-cheaper-than-average-health-insura.php"TPM:/abr /br /blockquotestrongGrassley's Government Health Insurance Hundreds Of Dollars A Month Cheaper Than Average Health Insurancebr /By Brian Beutler - June 24, 2009, 1:27PM/strongbr /br /Earlier today, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA)--the powerful ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee--lashed out against a public health insurance option, and government involvement in health care generally.br /br /Well, thanks to the government's involvement in health care, Grassley himself saves a pile of money insurance costs himself. In a letter to the Des Moines Register earlier this month, Grassley wrote, "I pay $356 a month for Blue Cross insurance coverage, a plan that is available to federal employees."br /br /That, of course, is significantly cheaper than the average monthly cost of insurance for American families--and that's notwithstanding Grassley's age, which makes him a significantly riskier insuree than the average citizen. But Grassley opposes a public insurance option, which supporters say would lower the cost of insurance for all consumers.br /br /He's a damn U.S. Senator and pays $356 for him AND his wife? My single sister pays more than that for her coverage./blockquotediv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21083673-5479046672059992037?l=mirroronamerica.blogspot.com'//div

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