Chuck Grassley

=== Health care ===
Grassley opposes the [[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act|Affordable Care Act]] and has voted to repeal it.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/16/15810524/senate-ahca-explain-please|title=We asked 8 Senate Republicans to explain what their health bill is trying to do|last1=Golshan|first1=Tara|date=June 16, 2017|work=[[Vox (website)|Vox]]|access-date=June 17, 2017|last2=Scott|first2=Dylan|last3=Stein|first3=Jeff|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170616215038/https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/16/15810524/senate-ahca-explain-please|archive-date=June 16, 2017}}</ref> Before its passage, he had supported the individual mandate in health care reform.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Grassley: I Supported The Individual Mandate Before I Realized It Was Unconstitutional|date=March 25, 2010 |url=https://archive.thinkprogress.org/grassley-i-supported-the-individual-mandate-before-i-realized-it-was-unconstitutional-6374557f50af/|access-date=2021-03-05|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Pecquet|first=Julian|date=2012-01-09|title=Lugar haunted by past support for individual mandate|url=https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/102212-lugar-haunted-by-past-support-for-individual-mandate/|access-date=2021-03-05|website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Grassley backtracks on individual mandate - Live Pulse - POLITICO.com|url=https://www.politico.com/livepulse/0909/Grassley_backtracks_on_individual_mandate.html|access-date=2021-03-05|website=[[Politico]]}}</ref> Grassley engaged in lengthy negotiations with the Obama administration, as it sought health care reform with support from Republican members of Congress. These negotiations produced nothing that Grassley would support, leading Democrats to characterize Grassley's efforts as intended to delay or scupper health care reform rather than produce compromise legislation.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Is Grassley Abandoning Bipartisan Health Bill?|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112044867|access-date=2021-04-08|website=[[NPR]]| date=August 20, 2009 |language=en| last1=Halloran | first1=Liz }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-01-29|title='Played' by GOP in the Obama era, wary Democrats and Biden go big on their own|url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-01-29/democrats-and-biden-go-big-learning-from-obama-era-frustrations-with-republicans|access-date=2021-04-08|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Haberkorn|first=Jennifer|title=This time, Grassley hears pro-Obamacare voices|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/chuck-grassley-obamacare-town-hall-235232|access-date=2021-04-08|website=[[Politico]]|date=February 21, 2017 |language=en}}</ref> In Obama's memoir, he describes an exchange between him and Grassley in the Oval Office as he sought to reach a compromise with Grassley. Obama asked, "If [[Max Baucus|Max [Baucus]]] took every one of your latest suggestions, could you support the bill?... Are there ''any'' changes—any at all—that would get us your vote?", to which Grassley responded, "I guess not, Mr. President."<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Obama|first=Barack|title=Barack Obama Looks Back on His Toughest Fight|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/02/barack-obama-new-book-excerpt-promised-land-obamacare|access-date=2021-04-08|magazine=The New Yorker|language=en-us}}</ref>

In July 2017, Grassley said that Senate Republicans should be ashamed of not having repealed the ACA, and that this could result in a loss of their majority in the 2018 elections.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/341152-grassley-republicans-will-lose-senate-majority-without/|title=Grassley: GOP will lose Senate majority without healthcare reform|author=Byrnes, Jason|date=July 8, 2017|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|access-date=August 24, 2018|archive-date=August 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180825002457/http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/341152-grassley-republicans-will-lose-senate-majority-without|url-status=live}}</ref>

In August 2018, Grassley was one of ten Republican senators to cosponsor legislation intended to protect ACA provisions for people with preexisting conditions.<ref name=":3">{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/403459-ten-gop-senators-introduce-bill-aimed-at-preserving-obamacares-pre-existing/|title=GOP senators introduce bill to preserve ObamaCare's pre-existing conditions protections|author=Hellmann, Jessie|date=August 24, 2018|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|access-date=August 24, 2018|archive-date=August 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180824200326/http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/403459-ten-gop-senators-introduce-bill-aimed-at-preserving-obamacares-pre-existing|url-status=live}}</ref> Health experts said the bill did not prevent insurers from excluding coverage for people with preexisting conditions.<ref name=":3" />