{"id":7233,"date":"2023-05-08T09:48:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T13:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/?p=7233"},"modified":"2023-05-08T09:49:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T13:49:02","slug":"states-move-forward-with-public-option-programs-but-differ-in-how-they-select-insurance-carriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/states-move-forward-with-public-option-programs-but-differ-in-how-they-select-insurance-carriers\/","title":{"rendered":"States Move Forward with Public Option Programs, but Differ in How They Select Insurance Carriers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Christine Monahan and Madeline O&#8217;Brien<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Washington, Colorado, and Nevada are partnering with private health insurance carriers to offer new &#8220;public option&#8221; plans that\u00a0face heightened requirements designed to advance important state goals\u2014like increasing affordability\u2014while competing against traditional private plans. One important design question these states have faced is how many and which carriers should issue public option plans.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealthfund.org\/blog\/2023\/states-move-forward-public-option-programs-insurance-carriers\">post<\/a> for the Commonwealth Fund&#8217;s <em>To the Point<\/em> blog, CHIR&#8217;s\u00a0Christine\u00a0Monahan and Madeline O&#8217;Brien compare Washington&#8217;s self-described \u201cselective procurement&#8221; approach with Colorado&#8217;s requirement that all carriers offer public option plans, and observe how Nevada still has time to decide whether to take all-comers or be more selective. You can read the full post\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealthfund.org\/blog\/2023\/states-move-forward-public-option-programs-insurance-carriers\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, Colorado, and Nevada are partnering with private health insurance carriers to offer new &#8220;public option&#8221; plans. In a post for the Commonwealth Fund&#8217;s To the Point blog, CHIR&#8217;s Christine Monahan and Madeline O&#8217;Brien compare state approaches to selecting insurance carriers to offer the new state plans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[40,566],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233"}],"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=7233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7235,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233\/revisions\/7235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chirblog.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}