Twenty Republican governors and governors-elect are accusing the White House of providing too little transparency on health care, causing worry that “deals” are being cut without their input.
In a letter sent Wednesday to the Congressional leaders of both parties, the governors wrote that they are “disappointed with the lack of transparency” as health care moves forward.
“We urge you not to circumvent the normal committee process and to conduct an open, fully-bipartisan negotiation,” the governors wrote. “It is time to slow down and pass meaningful health care reform, not hastily prepared partisan legislation which omits reform and saddles American taxpayers for generations to come.”
The letter comes, in part, as a response to the Obama administration’s move to bring in Democratic governors to stump for the bill ahead of its expected passage.
The Democratic Governors Association held a conference call Jan. 7 with White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in which some of the governors pledged to be clearer in their support for health reform and others aired their issues with the bill. - Politico Story
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