The Greene County Board of Supervisors are considering a change to the county’s health insurance plan.

Board Chair John Muir says discussions started happening due to rising costs of health insurance, making it tough for employees in the county’s self-funded system.

“So the employees were putting money into a fund from their paychecks to help pay some of the expenses of health insurance. Well in the last few years the health insurance costs have neutralized or taking them backwards in comparison to the raises they would get. That obviously raises a lot of questions and if there are things that we can do to make that a better situation.”

A seven-member committee consisting of two Supervisors, representatives from the courthouse, secondary roads department, and law enforcement, along with MacDonald Insurance agents Terry Lang and Sandy Scheuermann, are discussing several options and will make a recommendation to the Supervisors. Muir explains, the goal of the committee is to recommend two plans to employees.

“One is a current plan that we already have in place that was being utilized by the most employees. The other is a Health Savings Account (HSA) plan. What we’re thinking is those will be the two plans that we’ll offer.”

Muir gave an update of the current health insurance plans. There are 33 people enrolled in the middle plan currently, which consists of $1,000 and $2,000 deductibles with $2,000 and $4,000 out-of-pocket maximum rates. Scheuermann added that there is more of a push for HSAs because it allows for people to utilize funds when they wa