"If we want to lower insurance costs, we must address the underlying problem of the high cost of care"

    This is the real KEY to the rising cost of insurance that threatens all of our economic futures in one way or another. 
   Rich or poor, buisiness owner or employee, management or labor, union or non-union, the amount of money we as a nation spend on healthcare compared to any other country on the planet is obscene. 
    We have a high quality of healcare available to us here in the U.S. but many other countries have as good or better care. The difference is that the COST of care here (including prescriptions) is several times more expensive than anywhere else. 

    Alaska is a glaring example of that as the costs of many specialized procedures up here are two to three times the costs of those same procedures in the lower 48. 
    Because we are so geographically isolated, and there are a very limited number of specialized surgeons located here, Alaskans have been getting soaked