Hatch, now 84,co-sponsored a number of bills with Democrats over theyears, including the 1997 Children's HealthInsurance Program. (Photo: Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM)
Sen. Orrin Hatch, the Utah Republican retiring from42 years in the Senate as a new generation is swornin, leaves a long list of achievements in healthcare. Some were more controversial than others.
Hatch played key roles in shepherding the1983 OrphanDrug Act to promote drug development for rarediseases, and the 1984 National OrganTransplant Act, which helped create a national transplantregistry. And in 1995, when many people with AIDS werestill feeling marginalized by society and elected leaders, hetestified before the Senate about reauthorizing funding forhis RyanWhite CARE Act to treat uninsured people who have HIV.
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