Division fizzes up within GOP over resistance to health plan
By Richard Wolf,
USA TODAY
The scene is familiar: Republicans criticizing Washington's inaction on health care. Only now, they're blaming Republicans.
Concerned that their party may prevent progress on one of the nation's most intractable problems, several governors and former Washington power brokers are calling on Republicans in Congress to help pass a health care bill.
"We as Republicans have got to stand up and say what we're for instead of just what we're against," says Tommy Thompson, Health and Human Services secretary from 2001-05.
Their names carry weight. They include former Senate majority leaders Bob Dole and Bill Frist, a heart surgeon; Govs. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, a health policy expert; New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, now an independent; and Mark McClellan, former administrator of Medicare and Medicaid from 2004-06.
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USA TODAY
The scene is familiar: Republicans criticizing Washington's inaction on health care. Only now, they're blaming Republicans.
Concerned that their party may prevent progress on one of the nation's most intractable problems, several governors and former Washington power brokers are calling on Republicans in Congress to help pass a health care bill.
"We as Republicans have got to stand up and say what we're for instead of just what we're against," says Tommy Thompson, Health and Human Services secretary from 2001-05.
Their names carry weight. They include former Senate majority leaders Bob Dole and Bill Frist, a heart surgeon; Govs. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, a health policy expert; New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, now an independent; and Mark McClellan, former administrator of Medicare and Medicaid from 2004-06.
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