Group Health drops workplace injury coverage for self-employed, small businesses

This year, Group Health Cooperative stopped covering workplace illnesses and injuries for its individual and small-group plans. As the Spokesman-Review reports, the change won’t affect most large-group, employer-based plans. Instead, self-employed people and small businesses using Group Health will no longer have access to that coverage. Rick Henshaw, Group Health’s director of individual and family sales, told the Spokane newspaper that the cooperative dropped the coverage because it was…