Editor:

Utah’s Sen. Orrin Hatch and Rep. Rob Bishop are playing along with Republicans who see health care reform as a game to defeat Democrats.

Both Hatch and Bishop receive healthy contributions from the health insurance industry. Neither has offered a plan of his own. Neither supports Sen. Bob Bennett’s “Healthy American Act,” a bipartisan bill which utilizes free market choice and promotes preventative medicine and healthy lifestyles.

Our current health care system is the most expensive in the world while leaving tens of millions of Americans uninsured. US health care spending in 2007 amounted to 16 percent of our GDP; England spent 8.4 percent of their GDP on health care in that year.

In a 2000 health care survey of 191 nations by the World Health Organization, the US ranked 37th while England ranked 18th.

Clearly, we are not getting our money’s worth. If health care reform is delayed beyond this year, it likely will not pass. If you are tired of politics as usual, let Sen. Hatch and Rep. Bishop know you want them to work for you, not for the health insurance industry.

Ann Johnson

Bountiful