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

By Christine Monahan and Madeline O’Brien

Washington, Colorado, and Nevada are partnering with personal medical health insurance carriers to supply new “public possibility” plans that face heightened necessities designed to advance essential state objectives—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 possibility plans. 

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