Hill County employee health insurance premium increase discussed

At their weekly business meeting Thursday, the Hill County Commission tabled discussion of possibly raising county contributions to employee health insurance plans to cover a recent rate increase by their insurance provider.

The Montana Association of Counties, the entity through which county employees get their health insurance plans, recently announced that its rates were going up 6.5 percent and the county’s insurance committee recently recommended that the county absorb this increase so employees wouldn’t need to see their costs go up.

The committee, and some Hill County employees that hav...