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Chuck Grassley: Obamacare like a collapsing bridge

By Pete Kasperowicz
Published May 15, 2017 7:54pm ET
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Chuck Grassley: Obamacare like a collapsing bridge
Several Republicans have said Obamacare is on the verge of collapse, as more and more insurers exit the system, and premiums for the dwindling insurance packages rise. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) | Cliff Owen

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Monday compared Obamacare to a bridge built in 1940 that collapsed just five months after it was built.

“The bridge was set to fail from the very beginning,” Grassley said on the Senate floor about the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state.

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