Hatch To Retire After This Term, Leaves CHIP, Hatch-Waxman As Legacy

Senate Finance Committee Chair Orrin Hatch (UT), the Senate's longest serving Republican and influential health care legislator, says he will retire rather than seek reelection in 2018, but one lobbyist says he will likely try to make sure the Children's Health Insurance Program -- one of his signature pieces of legislation -- is funded before then and another says he could try to pass the Medicare chronic care legislation that he has been working on for years with Finance ranking...