...Dan Houghton, finance chief at Alaska Regional. An estimated one in five Alaskans lacks health insurance, said Catherine Schumacher, a doctor and researcher who heads the Anchorage Access to Health Care Coalition, a project aimed at making medical...

...state, as reported to the Centers for Disease Control. ``It's definitely going up,'' says physician Catherine Schumacher, chronic disease epidemiologist for Alaska. In 1991, when the state first began keeping track, 25 percent of...