Plan aimed at stabilizing Alaska insurance market approved

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has approved a proposal intended to help stabilize Alaska’s individual health insurance market.
State leaders hailed the news. But U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan said that work still remains in providing affordable health care for all Alaskans.
Congress is currently debating overhauling the existing federal health care law.
The state last year established a program to address claims for high-cost conditions in an effort t