Wicker slams Dems’ closed meetings on health overhaul
The latest Senate health care reform plan doesn’t go far enough to drive down costs for consumers and is being drafted in secret without input from Republicans, Sen. Roger Wicker complained Wednesday.
“Three or four members of one party and one party only, without the press there, without the public looking in, without other members of the Senate there, are meeting now behind closed doors,” Wicker, a Republican, said on the Senate floor.
House and Senate lawmakers are merging the health care reform proposals passed by various committees to produce a bill in each chamber. If those bills pass, they also will have to be merged.
Wicker, a member of the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Committee, also complained at a hearing on health care Tuesday that, “we have no idea what’s going to be in the bill.”
Democrats defended the process.
Clarion-Ledger
10/22/9
Magnolia Tribune
