A Mississippi senator says the healthcare bill approved by the Senate Finance Committee is bad for the economy, bad for the deficit, and doesn't provide better healthcare.
The White House sent some top officials to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to talk about how to combine two healthcare reform bills that have come out of Senate committees. Currently three bills are also being considered in the House. But Senator Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi) says all the Democratic proposals take the country's healthcare system in the wrong direction. "We should be trying to cut the deficit," he says. "This Senate Finance Committee bill, like all the other comprehensive healthcare proposals coming out of the Democratic Congress, they all increase the deficit." Wicker suggests a number of ways to improve the healthcare system. "We need to provide more competition across state lines. We need a bill that includes medical malpractice reform," the GOP lawmaker argues. "And we need to give small businesses the opportunity for the purchasing power through associated health plans that the large corporations have." Wicker also points out there is nothing in the current legislation that protects the unborn, nor is there is firm protection against someone using taxpayer funds to purchase insurance that provides abortions.
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