Having asked the state (back when I was a union negotiator) what the actual cost for benefits were and receiving figures that made no sense. Example: adding employee contributions as part of the overall benefits total...i.e. those $ were already counted as wages...also counting a portion of the salaries as benefit costs of state employees that manage those benefits...as far as health costs the state of ak. is self insured...when #'s are requested as to why the cost for administering by Aetna et al was so high, the state refused to give us the numbers. I could go on.