BRIEF: Butler County sees $1 million health insurance hike

Nov. 04--BUTLER COUNTY -- Although Butler County employees' health insurance claims are trending down compared to previous years, the county is still anticipating a $1 million hike for next year.

The Butler County commissioners decided to go to a self insurance model this year after several years of double-digit rate hikes. The projection for next year is $14 million in county costs and $3.6 million the employees will pay, which is a $591,364 jump.

County Administrator Charlie Young said changes to the plan changed the bottom line.

"If we just duplicated our plans from this year to next year the increase would be 8.4 percent," Young said. "But there were some complaints about our plan this year that have caused there to be an interest in changing the plans a little bit and those make the plans higher in actuarial value which translates into a slightly better plan but also slightly more expensive."

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