Longtime area business owner, Natasha Plank-Ottum knowsintimately the strain of healthcare on employees and employers.  Costs cut into business growth and employee paychecks.  As such, she has become an advocatefor Advancing Free Market Healthcare, a group of employers who are working to raise awareness among policymakers on the impacts rising costs are having.

Dr. Usher and her discuss some roadblocks employers face and what practical things that can be done when it comes to providing healthcare coverage to employees.