President Obama and Senator/Sec of State Clinton are proposing a public option type government health insurance exchange for states like Alaska and Wyoming that have low populations, high medical costs and ridiculously high health insurance rates. Of course those insurance rates are a direct result of inflated to the point of blatant gouging by the medical providers but having another, less expensive option for health insurance would be a godsend until the high cost of healthcare itself can be reined in. How can it be possible that it is cheaper for insurance corporations to fly patients and companions outside for procedures then send them back for follow ups than it is to do the procedures up here? That concept is just mind boggling. Healthcare providers are gouging up here because they are allowed to get away with it not because of higher cost of living, shipping or any of the other excuses used to justify groceries etc over the decades.