Orrin Hatch: “I will not take all that. I apologize to the managers of the bill for taking this time. For over 60 years, Washington…”

“I will not take all that. I apologize to the managers of the bill for taking this time. For over 60 years, Washington has tried to come up with a way to provide access to health insurance for all Americans. The premise of this bill is that instead of relying on Washington for answers, we rely on the people. I compliment my colleague from Oregon for coming up with this idea. I am very happy to sign on and help him with it, the Health Care That Works For All Americans: Citizens' Health Care Working Group legislation. It was created in order to hear what people like and do not like about the current health care system. It is our hope this working group of citizens will have at least one townhall meeting in every State in the Union, pick the brains of all Americans, and see if we can come up with answers to our health care problems. We provide a mechanism once they do for the Congress to at least consider it and see what we can do to go from there. This is one of the biggest issues we all have to face.”