Thompson responds to critics, denies backing Obama health plan

Pushing back against claims that he supported “ObamaCare,” Tommy Thompson told a group of GOP donors in Washington, D.C., Wednesday that the new health care law “has got to be repealed and replaced and re-written.” In an interview afterward, the former governor, now weighing a U.S. Senate bid, scoffed at critics on the right who call him a “big government” Republican, not a conservative. (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 6/16)