Dealing with increased health-insurance costs

When it comes to health insurance, it’s time to give a happy shout-out to Boulder County and Colorado employers.

Yes – you heard that right.

Even though health-insurance costs have continued to increase about 10 percent every year for the past five years in Boulder County and across the state, employers are bearing the brunt of the increased costs, based on information from the Mountain States Employers Council.

In Boulder, employers picked up 85 percent of health-insurance costs for single people, 70 percent of insurance costs for employees with spouses and 67 percent for employees with families, according to the data. The…