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July 11, 2017

GOP governors urge caution on health care

  • For these governors, the big issues are not blowing a hole in state budgets and maintaining health care coverage for constituents.
    • By ALISON NOON and BILL BARROW
    Associated Press

    CARSON CITY, Nev. — The pressure is on Republican senators — from congressional leaders, conservative groups and impatient GOP voters — to fulfill a seven-year-old promise to scrap much of Democrat Barack Obama's health care law. But back home, Republican governors who have experienced some of the upside of the law are warning their GOP senators to first, do no harm.

    For these governors, the issue is less about delivering a triumph to President Donald Trump and more about not blowing a hole in state budgets and maintaining health care coverage for constituents. In the critical next few weeks, some governors are uniquely positioned to press home-state Republican senators who could deny Majority Leader Mitch McConnell the votes he needs to pass a Republican health care bill.


     
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