Health Affairs May 6, 2022
The death of former Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) marks the loss of another congressional champion of health care legislation. Following the death late last year of former Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kansas), we have lost two leaders who helped shape health policy in the 1980s and 1990s.
Hatch was first elected to the Senate in 1976, upsetting long-time incumbent Frank Moss. It was his first run for public office. In 1981, he became chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee (the predecessor to today’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions or HELP), following the GOP takeover of the Senate as part of Reagan’s landslide election. He would serve as chairman until 1987. (Years later, he served as Chairman...
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