Board eyes health plan changes

“When we did this plan originally, every year I’d come, and the sky was falling. And it never fell …‘til this year.”

So began a presentation by Lew Wolters, a health/employee benefits agent from C&M Insurance working with Leelanau County, to the county board of commissioners in mid-December.

Wolters said the cost of the county employee’s self-insurance program is projected to go up by over 37% next year, in response to more employees reaching their pharmaceutical drug deductibles and the county having to pay the costs.