The top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee says the healthcare legislation currently working its way through the Senate will dramatically drive up healthcare costs and further increase the strain on the budgets of American families.

Now that the Senate Finance Committee has passed its version of healthcare reform, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) is working to merge it with the HELP Committee bill and get a final package to the floor in two weeks.

The ranking Republican on the Finance Committee, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, warns that since the HELP Committee bill contains a public health insurance option, the merged bill will contain even more government involvement in healthcare than the final Finance Committee bill...