New Report Says Senate Reform Measure Would Increase Costs, Imperil CoverageWASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker today said serious concerns are raised about the Senate...
Wicker Introduces Amendment to Repeal Doctors’ Cuts, Permanently Fix Medicare Compensation Formula
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., introduced legislation Thursday to permanently repeal the Medicare physicians’ payment formula, or Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR). The Mississippi...
Wicker: GOP Sens. Will “Take Full Advantage of Rights” to Stop Taxpayer Subsidies for Abortion in Spending Bills
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., has joined a majority of his Republican colleagues in the Senate in sending a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid regarding several alarming...
Wicker Votes to Bar Federal Funding of Abortion in Senate Health Bill
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today said the Senate missed an important opportunity to protect the unborn when an amendment he cosponsored to bar taxpayer funding of abortion in the...
Wicker: Senate Health Bill Raises Costs and Expands Government With No Real Reform
With the critical and consequential health care debate now before the Senate, my guiding principles have been simple. Any health care bill must enact the reforms that the people of Mississippi have...
Wicker Votes to Eliminate Half a Trillion Dollars in Medicare Cuts from Democrats’ Health Care Bill
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today voted for an amendment to strip the Senate Democrats’ health care bill of Medicare cuts totaling nearly $500 billion. The amendment, offered...
Wicker Votes ‘No,’ Says Democrats’ Health Care Bill Spends Too Much, Taxes Too Much, and Slashes Medicare
Senate Vote Clears Procedural Hurdle for Bill, Health Care Debate to Begin After ThanksgivingWASHINGTON – Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., voted tonight against allowing the Senate Democrats’ health...
Cochran, Wicker Request Analysis of Long-Term Costs of Senate Health Reform Plan
New Report Says House Reform Bill Could Jeopardize Medicare Coverage for SeniorsWASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker today announced that they have asked Senate Majority Leader...
Sen. Wicker Discusses Health Care, the Tanker Bid, and GO Zone Legislation
Senator Wicker’s remarks on Gulf Coast Mornings with Kipp Greggory and Steve DickersonWASHINGTON – Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today gave a Congressional update and discussed issues important to...
Wicker Statement on Doctors’ Medicare Reimbursement Proposal
Wicker: “We need to solve this doctors’ reimbursement problem, and we can do so without piling on to our already massive debt.”WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today issued the...