Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA), a strong advocate for comprehensive healthcare reform, issues the following statement:
"So we're hearing that a bunch of Republican governors and attorneys general are vowing to file suit to block comprehensive healthcare reform as soon as we pass it in the Congress and President Obama signs it into law. These are some of the same Republicans who claimed they were going to refuse money from the Recovery Act – and quietly took the dollars anyway.
"Where were these Republicans when healthcare suits needed to be filed – suits against the insurance companies that have been denying healthcare, cutting off coverage and devising new, monopoly-style tricks to run up costs?