Well, if that's the case, then Charles thinks we should get rid of Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans Health Service, Indian Health Service, Merchant Marines Health Services, CHIP for Kids, and turn all these over to the greedy profiteering health insurance industry - composed of 28 major insurance providers, all with different forms, standards, rates, unaffordable premiums, and golden salaries for the corporate officers, compelled to charge premiums that generate dividends for shareholders.  And, Charles, it is an absolute bogus statement to say Medicare in Alaska is rationed.  Every time an uninsured person goes into the ER,  everyone is paying part of the cost as the hospitals, clinics, and doctors all factor this into their provider rates.  Charles, you obviously have no concept of the health care financial system in its totality.  Poor investigative research on your part in producing this article.