Gov. Gary Herbert and three of the candidates vying to take his place offered their views Thursday on the top priorities Utah voters identified in a survey by the Utah Foundation.
Topping the 2016 Utah Priorities Project survey was health care, and that was the issue that sparked the most friction between Herbert, Republican Jonathan Johnson, and Democrats Mike Weinholtz and Vaughn Cook.
“Sometimes you take what you can get in the political arena where you get the votes that will pass, and it may not be perfect, but maybe is better than doing nothing,” Herbert said.
Last year, lawmakers rejected the governor’s Healthy Utah plan for using the hundreds of millions of dollars available for Medicaid expansion under President Barack Obama’s health care law to cover all eligible Utahns.
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