{"id":6673,"date":"2022-04-04T09:28:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T13:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chirblog.org\/?p=6673"},"modified":"2022-04-04T09:28:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T13:28:53","slug":"update-state-public-option-style-laws-getting-affordable-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/update-state-public-option-style-laws-getting-affordable-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on State Public Option-Style Laws: Getting to More Affordable Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Christine Monahan, Justin Giovannelli, and Kevin Lucia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While federal health coverage reforms remain stalled in Congress, several states are pushing forward to establish modified versions of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealthfund.org\/blog\/2021\/state-public-option-style-laws-what-policymakers-need-know\">public health insurance options<\/a>. Washington, Colorado, and Nevada have enlisted private carriers to offer public option-style plans intended to drive down costs and provide new, affordable choices to consumers. These states, and others contemplating similar moves, are working hard to meet these goals while ensuring robust provider participation.<\/p>\n<p>In their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealthfund.org\/blog\/2022\/update-state-public-option-style-laws-getting-more-affordable-coverage\">latest post<\/a> for the Commonwealth Fund&#8217;s\u00a0<em>To the Point<\/em> blog, CHIR\u2019s Christine Monahan, Justin Giovannelli, and Kevin Lucia provide an update on public option implementation, including Washington\u2019s efforts to expand availability of the state\u2019s public option, the status of Colorado\u2019s plans set to launch next year, and the results of Nevada\u2019s recent stakeholder engagement. You can read the full post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealthfund.org\/blog\/2022\/update-state-public-option-style-laws-getting-more-affordable-coverage\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While federal health coverage reforms remain stalled in Congress, several states are pushing forward to establish modified versions of\u00a0public health insurance options. In their latest post for the Commonwealth Fund&#8217;s To the Point blog, CHIR\u2019s Christine Monahan, Justin Giovannelli, and Kevin Lucia provide an update on implementation of public option-style plans in Washington, Colorado, and Nevada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[239,566,721],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6675,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6673\/revisions\/6675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}