Kaiser-Permanente official: Health insurance remains unaffordable

GREELEY – Health insurance remains unaffordable for consumers despite smaller premium increases and efforts by health care providers to control costs, a top official for Kaiser-Permanente Colorado said Wednesday.

Health care providers will face a major challenge as they seek to lower high costs of health care this year, said Dr. Jandel Allen-Davis, vice president for government and external relations.

“The next Mount Everest we climb is going to be focused on how we control costs,” she said.

Allen-Davis and other experts gave their predictions for the region’s economic health at BizWest’s annual Economic Forecast event at the University of Northern Colorado. The…