Paradoxically, the Dartmouth research, which confirms some similar studies, shows that patients in high-cost areas are not necessarily getting better care.
In high-cost areas like ours, people of modest means drive because they have to.
But the basic payment to health plans in these high-cost areas would still grow at least 2 percent a year, lawmakers said.
In high-cost areas like New York City, the limit would be raised to $172,675.
As a result, some service members in high-cost areas get too little reimbursement for housing.
Often it is hard to recruit some employees for work in a high-cost area like New York.
"I'd say that in this high-cost area, 90 percent of the time there's an economic need to supplement a pension or Social Security."
The pressure is much worse for companies operating in high-cost areas like the North Sea.
But even before then, the President can ease recruitment problems in high-cost areas.
Everyone living in high-cost areas, not just two-earner couples, is adversely affected by it.