Rate increases predicted for RE-1 Valley health insurance stat : Journal Advocate

At their business meeting Tuesday, the board heard an update on health insurance options. "You then get lower rates with the health insurance and I just don't feel that's a feasible option at this point," Pilkington told the board. She also shared two plan options provided by Colorado Choice, which has a contract with Banner Health. Colorado Choice rep: District faces lack of options due to size, historyRE-1 Valley School District is likely looking at another increase in cost for employee health insurance for the 2017-18 budget year. Paul Roberts, vice president of sales and marketing for Colorado Choice, was at the meeting.




Health insurance offers have held steady of the five-year period among large employers, so the nationwide decline in insurance offers across all firms has been more moderate. Minnesota bucked the trend in terms of the share of small employers offering health insurance in 2015, with the state's rate increasing from 2014. A new University of Minnesota report shows the nationwide decline in small businesses offering health insurance continued in 2015, with the offer rate falling to just under 30 percent. For years, there have been concerns that many small business just can't afford offering coverage given never-ending increases in the overall cost of health care. Over five years, large employer offers have declined slightly in Minnesota, according to the report, while there's been a more pronounced downward trend among the state's small employers.


The 2017 city budget indicates $6,300 is budgeted for City Council health insurance. Buy Photo Moore (Photo: file/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)Buy PhotoGREEN BAY - A City Council alderman wants to talk about eliminating the council's health insurance. Here's a closer look at the week in local government:Council health insuranceAlderman Joe Moore has requested the Personnel Committee consider eliminating health insurance benefits for himself and his fellow council members. The request would grandfather current elected city officials who planned to purchase city-provided health insurance in 2018. The agenda item indicates the benefits could be eliminated for everyone elected to the City Council during the spring 2018 election.



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