In the second half of this audio clip from Monday’s PBS NewsHour, senior Utah senator Orrin Hatch rips apart the federal health care law. The gist of his argument is it’s too expensive. He says he’d love for everybody to have health coverage, but “they outta trash the bill and get rid of it” and come up with a bi-partisan bill.
[audio:http://newshour-tc.pbs.org/newshour/rss/media/2011/02/28/20110228_healthredo.mp3|titles=PBS NewsHour: Health care compromise]Hatch says Utah’s health care [PDF link] is good, so maybe I should read up on how it compares to what we have here in Massachusetts, enacted into law by Mitt Romney, who has his own ties to Utah. If Hatch truly opposes government health care coverage, I assume he must not take advantage of it himself, as he is entitled to do as a United States senator.