"A new report ... reveals that the cost of health insurance for employers in Colorado is increasing faster than the national average -- and that employers are often pushing that added cost onto their workers. Meanwhile, an annual study released last year found, for the first time in its history, that the percentage of Coloradans covered by an employer-based plan had dropped below 50 percent. Taken together, the two reports paint a worrisome picture for employer-based insurance, the workhorse of Colorado's health coverage system."

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