Two major health insurers in Colorado — Anthem and Rocky Mountain Health Plans — have reversed their plans to withdraw from several counties next year.

The withdrawals would have affected only people who don’t get coverage through a job and instead buy it on their own. Anthem’s and Rocky’s decisions to remain in those counties — which were mostly along the Front Range — came after the state legislature made new funding available during the recent special session to address what are expected to be steep price increases .

Michael Conway, Colorado’s insurance commissioner, said in a statement that bills passed during the special session “helped ensure that both Rocky Mountain HMO and Anthem have decided to pull back the discontinuances they initially filed.”

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