Health care reforms still dominated letters to both Sen. Orrin Hatch and Rep. Rob Bishop during December.
Hatch said, “I have responded to roughly 10,000 letters from Utahns in recent months on this issue, the majority who share my concerns about this tax and spend bill.”
He said that many of his constituents have also expressed their “distaste” for the federal funding for elective abortions contained in the bill. “They do not want to see taxpayer money in any way fund abortions.”
As U.S. Senate Democrats blocked a GOP filibuster in the early morning hours of Dec. 21, moving President Barack Obama’s health care plan one step closer to a Christmas passage Utahns continue to worry about the bill’s cost.
Another health care concern both Hatch and Bishop are hearing about is cuts to Medicare.
The proposed cuts would be to the Medicare Advantage plans run by HMOs that offer bonus care for low premiums.
The proposed cuts would take some $460 billion from the program over 10 years. Nearly a quarter of Medicare patients have enrolled in the programs.
Both men also continue to hear about big government spending and the overall size of government, spokespersons for both Hatch and Bishop say.
Another, newer issue Hatch is hearing about is the Copenhagen/Climate Change Summit, which recently ended. Hatch said his constituents are writing with questions, disagreements and mistrust in the summit. “By and large they are concerned with any agreements that might be signed by our country, and what it will mean to our future economic stability.”
mwilliams@davisclipper.com
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