Lew Says Republicans Should ’Get Over’ Health Law Debate

White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew said Republican attacks on President Barack Obama’s health-care law as a tax are rehashing old arguments, as Republican leaders in Congress vow to keep up a drive to repeal it.

“What the American people don’t want is they don’t want to be taken back to the old divisive debate,” Lew said on CNN yesterday. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week in favor of the law’s central feature, a mandate requiring most Americans to carry health insurance or pay a penalty. Lew said the public wants its government to “get over the debate and implement the law.”