Sen. Grassley: Election will be over the economy, not health car - KTIV News 4 Sioux City IA: News, Weather and Sports

We're not quite a week removed from the Supreme Court's landmark decision to uphold President Obama's health care reform law, and U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa says the battle over it, isn't finished.

Grassley said as much while visiting the American Popcorn Company in Sioux City.

The Republican says if GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney is elected, he and Congress will repeal the law. In its place, new health care reform.

Grassley says it wouldn't be a sudden sweeping overhaul of the system. Rather, a plan passed in segments, without an individual mandate.

"It will be done step-by-step. Not with a massive 2,700 page bill, all ready with 12,000 pages of regulations written," said Grassley.

Grassley went on to say that the election won't be won, or lost, over health care reform, though. He says it'll hinge on the economy. Something he claims the president has mishandled.

"Every indicator in the economy is worse now, after three and a half years, then it was when he took over. So it is his economy," said Grassley.

The Senator also made four other Iowa stops on Tuesday, Aurelia, Ida Grove, Mapleton, and Charter Oak.