Alright Mr. Wohlforth. Thank you for finally addressing this so important issue. Am looking forward to what you see as solutions to the inordinately high cost of healthcare up here which results in the excessively high premiums we pay for health insurance. You state that profits are much more for our hospitals than elsewhere but why is that? Why does a colonoscopy cost a couple thousand dollars and more up here but only $700 or so in Seattle for example? Of course when people routinely have shoulder, hip, knee and other enormously expensive procedures the cost of medical care would go up but why more here than anywhere else? Why is less expensive for the State of Alaska to send patients and their spouses to Seattle for care than it is here? Why does even Providence send their employees outside for care? Here's hoping that your future columns will illuminate readers on answers to these questions that should not be difficult to answer. I suspect inflated profit taking is the culprit.