Conservative Group of House Republicans Releasing Health Care Bill Without Blunt

Rep. Tom Price is not content to wait around for Roy Blunt and John Boehner to waste more weeks not releasing a health care reform bill.  Price's Republican Study Committee is moving on without them.  Greg Sargent reports:

Okay, the tale of the missing House GOP health care bill has taken another intriguing turn: A group of House Republicans has created a bill — but without the GOP leadership, which still has yet to unveil its own.

CBS News reports that GOP Rep. Tom Price and the Republican Study Committee (RSC), a group of House conservatives, is set to unveil its own health care bill, the “Empowering Patients First Act.”

But here’s the thing: Neither GOP House leader John Boehner nor Roy Blunt, the head of the House GOP Health Care Solutions Group, had any role in creating it, RSC spokesman Brendan Buck confirms.

Price's bill will be called the "Empowering Patients First Act."

This is doubly embarrassing for Blunt: he has failed so enormously in his capacity of leader of House GOP health care efforts that other members are refusing to wait for him, and Price's initiative exposes Blunt's lame excuses about why he can't introduce legislation.