States Move Forward with Public Option Programs, however Differ in How They Select Insurance Carriers

By Christine Monahan and Madeline O’Brien

Washington, Colorado, and Nevada are partnering with personal medical insurance carriers to supply new “public option” plans that face heightened necessities designed to advance essential state targets—like growing affordability—whereas competing in opposition to conventional personal plans. One essential design query these states have confronted is what number of and which carriers ought to difficulty public choice plans. 

In a publish for the Commonwealth Fund’s To the Point weblog, CHIR’s Christine Monahan and Madeline O’Brien examine Washington’s self-described “selective procurement” method with Colorado’s requirement that every one carriers supply public choice plans, and observe how Nevada nonetheless has time to determine whether or not to take all-comers or be extra selective. You can learn the complete publish right here.