Hatch Statement on Supreme Court Ruling on ObamaCare

Utah Senator Says, “The American people know that this law violates our deepest constitutional principles of limited government, despite the Supreme Court’s ruling today.”

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee and a current member and former Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today issued the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act:

“The American people know that this law violates our deepest constitutional principles of limited government, despite the Supreme Court’s ruling today. President Obama’s $2.6 trillion health spending law is an unprecedented power grab by this White House that will increase health care costs, add to our skyrocketing national debt, and put Washington bureaucrats in between patients and their doctors. This ruling doesn’t change the fact that a majority of the people of Utah and across America want this law repealed. The American people will have the last word at the ballot box this November.  But let me be absolutely clear, I will continue the fight to repeal this assault on individual liberty and limited government.”

NOTE: Hatch has championed efforts in Congress to repeal the health law. He has supported legislation to repeal the law in its entirety as well as introduced legislation to repeal: the unconstitutional individual mandate (S. 19); the job-crushing employer mandate (S.20); and the medical device tax (S. 17).

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