GOP leader: Obama would create 51 boards, commissions to swell government role in health care

House GOP leader: health care needs refocused

WASHINGTON — The top House Republican says President Barack Obama’s proposed health care overhaul would create 51 new boards or commissions and isn’t needed.

Ohio Rep. John Boehner says Washington doesn’t have to throw away the existing system. Boehner says Democrats want a bigger role for government in health care — “a giant takeover,” he calls it — and he says that’s just not needed.

He says people are “scared to death” about what may happen to the system.

Boehner spoke to NBC’s “Meet the Press.”