Republican governors are balking at adopting key provisions of President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul, a week after Mitt Romney's defeat dashed their hopes of scuttling the two-year-old law.
The state leaders, at a meeting of the Republican Governors Association in Las Vegas, said they're concerned over costs and regulatory burdens the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act may impose. Republicans unsuccessfully challenged the law in court and many delayed implementing it, hoping Romney — who called for the law's repeal — would win the Nov. 6 presidential election.
“It's a bad piece of legislation,” Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal said at a news conference in Las Vegas yesterday. “It's going to have a lot of unintended consequences.”
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