November 19, 2009
GOP governors assail health care plans
The Associated PressGOP governors are blistering Democratic health care plans in Congress. They say the legislation will result in crippling costs to states already grappling with huge budget deficits in a recession.
They're urging their Democratic counterparts to publicly oppose the measures, too. They spoke during a Republican Governors Association conference near Austin, Texas, and laid out ideas for doing health care reform in a bipartisan way.
They say legislation in Congress overreaches, and unfairly shifts costs to states. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels calls cost descriptions of the bill fraudulent and says: "We all know a sucker play when we see one."