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Joseph Q. Jarvis: Our health care system must be changed through the ballot box

Utah governors have tried to improve health care for many years, but nothing has happened.

Steve Griffin  |  The Salt Lake Tribune

Gov. Gary Herbert addresses the media as he releases his detailed Healthy Utah plan, which is an alternative way to expanding health care coverage for the poor without technically expanding Medicaid. The plan was hammered out in months of negotiation this year with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He was joined in the Gold Room at the Utah State Capitol by city and state leaders in Salt Lake City, Thursday, December 4, 2014.

Steve Griffin | The Salt Lake Tribune Gov. Gary Herbert addresses the media as he releases his detailed Healthy Utah plan, which is an alternative way to expanding health care coverage for the poor without technically expanding Medicaid. The plan was hammered out in months of negotiation this year with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He was joined in the Gold Room at the Utah State Capitol by city and state leaders in Salt Lake City, Thursday, December 4, 2014.