Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Wednesday renewed his call for Obama to scrap his health care reform proposal in advance of the meeting.
Obama's health care reform plan, revealed on Monday, largely mirrors a version of legislation passed by the Senate over Republican objections. The proposal includes some concessions to the House version, which is considered more liberal by some observers.
McConnell said the White House proposal was a "major disappointment."
Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., the chairman of the House Republican Conference and key lieutenant to House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, also derided the summit as nothing more than theater.
"Tomorrow's summit is looking more and more like a taxpayer-funded media event designed to set up passage of ObamaCare 2.0, and the American people deserve to know it," he said.
Pence echoed GOP calls for Obama to drop the Democratic proposals and start over.
"If the administration and Democrats in Congress were actually willing to scrap the bill and start over with a clean sheet of paper, I'd be all for it," he said. "Instead of scrapping the bill, the president has actually produced his own bigger, worse version of the bills that passed the House and Senate and have been summarily rejected by the American people."
He added, "More spending, more taxes, more government and coverage for abortion."
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