Sen. Chuck Grassley: No bi-partisan support for Obamacare

Government run health care might be dead on arrival, according to Chuck Grassley:

From The Hill's Briefing Room:

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a key player in healthcare negotiations, laid down the gauntlet on Tuesday, saying there won't be a bipartisan healthcare reform bill that includes a public option.

In a thinly veiled swipe at Sen. Edward Kennedy's (D-Mass.) Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Grassley said on MSNBC that if reform is going to get bipartisan support "it is going to have to come out of the Finance Committee," of which he is the ranking member.

Asked what the criteria would be for bipartisan support Grassley said: "We need to make sure there is no public option."

The senator said that there could be a "co-op" but said that a pure public option or government run health program would have to stay out of the legislation.

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