The sticker prices of health insurance plans available on Vermont Health Connect will increase next year, but by much less than in recent years.

The average price for plans on the individual market, which covers about 30,000 people in Vermont who are self-employed or work for companies that don’t offer health insurance, will increase between 1% and 10% from last year’s rates, on average.

Plans on the small group market, which covers another roughly 40,000 people employed by small businesses, will go up by less than 5% on average.

State regulators at the Green Mountain Care Board announced the approved rate increases last week for plans offered by Bluecross Blueshield of Vermont and MVP Health Care .

“Our commercial premiums are still really quite too high — we’re still the

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