...percent annual growth rates and could reach about $8 billion in 2011, according to an analysis by consulting economist Mark Foster, who tracks the health care industry.Foster has been retained by the Alaska Health Care Commission, an advisory...

...Erickson said the commission will retain consultants to do the work. In a report to the commission, health care economist Mark Foster outlined what he believes will be the effects of the new federal health care law on individual Alaskans and businesses...

...disaster. For their part, MEA, low-balled the cost of their coal plant by as much as 80 percent (according to Mark Foster). They failed to take into consideration the unique capital costs of constructing a coal plant in Alaska, the high...

...about $200 million a year or a 2 percent increase, Mark Foster, a consulting economist, said in the forum. However...Alaskans who are currently uninsured will have coverage, Mark Foster said, and this will inevitably put new strains on the...

...about $1 billion, Carey told the task force. At the same task force meeting an independent consulting economist, Mark Foster, questioned some of the underlying assumptions the energy authority made in recommending a Susitna dam to the governor...

...Alaska, and many businesses and individuals should see reductions. That's a preliminary result of an analysis done by Mark Foster, an independent economist who has done extensive work on Alaska health care for the University of Alaska. Foster estimated...