Alaska Regional Hospital and related medical buildings are seen on Friday beyond a scupture at the facilities’ Anchorage campus. Health care costs in Alaska’s three largest cities are about 50% higher than the national average for urban areas, a new report says. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
Alaska’s three biggest cities have the highest health care costs among the nation’s urban areas, with costs that are about 50% higher than the U.S. urban average, a state analysis shows.
The findings, part of a broader analysis of Alaska’s cost of living that was released by the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, are the latest in a series of reports detailing Alaska’s extraordinarily high medical costs…