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[email protected] RIVER DISTRICT New historic design guidelines on tap, 3 AGRIBUSINESS Pilgrim’s Pride to keep shopping despite failed Hillshire bid, 5 HEALTH CARE Federal partnership helps hospitals cut costs, 9 THE BUSINESS JOURNAL OF THE BOULDER VALLEY AND NORTHERN COLORADO VOLUME 33 | ISSUE 11 | JUNE 13-26, 2014 Employers shifting health-care costs to employees BY MOLLY ARMBRISTER in an attempt to combat ever-increas- rose by 5.4 percent. The employer pays $13,250 of that
[email protected] ing premiums. At the same time, it costs more cost, and the employee, through pay- A new study called the Milliman than twice as much to insure a family roll deductions, co-pays and deduct- Health-insurance costs rose for Medical Index, produced by Seattle- in 2014 as it did in 2004, according to ibles, pays $9,695, an increase of both employers and their employees based health-care analytics company the study. Then, it cost an average of $1,185 from 2013. in 2014, according to a new analysis, Milliman Inc., shows that employees’ $11,192 to insure one employee and “Even if we are bending the cost but costs rose faster for employees as health insurance costs rose by 6 per- his or her dependents, compared with curve, there are few other household employers shifted more of the burden cent in 2014, while employers’ costs $23,215 in 2014. ➤ See Rate, 24 Loveland vote pits frack attackers vs. backers BY STEVE LYNN
[email protected] LOVELAND – Sharon Carlisle is deep in campaign mode in a garage in downtown Loveland, which she hopes will become the latest Front Range city to approve a ban on the oil and natural-gas drilling technique known as fracking.