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GOP governors assail health care plans
Posted: 11.19.2009 at 12:08 PM
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(AP) -- CEDAR CREEK, Texas (AP) - GOP 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."

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

(Copyright ©2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)