States Transfer Ahead with Public Possibility Packages, however Differ in How They Choose Insurance coverage Carriers

By Christine Monahan and Madeline O’Brien

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

In a publish for the Commonwealth Fund’s To the Level 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 resolve whether or not to take all-comers or be extra selective. You possibly can learn the total publish right here.