Here in South Carolina, the healthcare debate hits home.
Some are all for it, some others, not so much.
Lawmakers in Washington are still tackling the issue.
The healthcare reform bill is currently in the hands of the Senate after narrowly passing in the house this past weekend.
Some people in South Carolina wouldn't mind if the folks in the nation's capital pulled the plug on healthcare.

Small businessman Duncan Macrae, doesn't like the taste of the health care reform being served up in Washington.

"We're all just holding our breath, waiting to see exactly what they are going to do to us," says Macrae.             

The co-owner of Yesterday's Restaurant in Columbia's Five Points says if the government makes him cover all his 78 employees, one of two things will happen.

"Either we hire fewer people, or we have to raise our prices, neither which of what we want to do, but that's what we will be forced to do,” says Macrae.

Macrae says, not knowing how much insurance will cost or who must be covered, leaves him with too many questions.

"This bill has no fear, for the small businessman, in fact every small businessman I know came to Washington and testified in favor of this bill," says Congressman James Clyburn.

Tuesday afternoon, Clyburn was in Columbia hosting a roundtable discussion on the healthcare debate.

Clyburn says it simply isn't true the reform bill will kill the small businessman.

"The Small Business Commerce endorsed this bill, AARP endorsed this bill,” says Clyburn.             

Clyburn says the bill will cover 96 percent of Americans.           

The house majority whip also adds the government will look at a business's payroll to determine how much they will pay for insurance costs.

Still that’s not enough to sway Duncan Macrae.

"I'd like to see everybody get the health care that's necessary, but let's go back to it being an individual issue, and let the people who get health care be taken care of by themselves, not by the employer," says Macrae.  

And until all his questions get answers, Macrae hopes the government cancels the order on the healthcare bill.