Publication
“Are State Public Option Health Plans Worth It?”
Jaime S. King, Katherine L. Gudiksen, and Erin Fuse Brown
March 2, 2022
In a paper published in the Harvard Journal on Legislation Volume 59, Issue 1, The Source’s Jaime King and Katie Gudiksen, together with Erin Fuse Brown, discuss state public option proposals from 2010–2021, including from states like Nevada, Colorado, and Washington. In examining the three main models—(1) Medicaid Buy-In Public Options; (2) Marketplace-Based Public Options; and (3) Comprehensive Public Options—the paper considers potential challenges to these state public option plans and whether they are legally viable and “worth it” for states to pursue, given the goal of improving healthcare coverage and affordability. Read the paper here.
Also listen to a podcast for the New England Journal of Medicine in which co-author Erin Fuse Brown discusses lessons from the states public option plans explored in the paper.
Source Sightings
A Step Forward for Health Care Market Oversight: Oregon Health Authority’s Health Care Market Oversight Program
Robin Davison, Katie Gudiksen, Alex Montague, Jaime King
March 13, 2023
Antitrust’s Healthcare Conundrum: Cross-Market Mergers and the Rise of System Power
Jaime King, Alex Montague, Tim Greaney et al.
May 2023
Challenging Anticompetitive Cross-Market Health Mergers
Jaime King, Alex Montague, Tim Greaney
January 19, 2023
American Bar Association 2022 Antitrust Fall Forum
Katie Gudiksen
November 17, 2022
The Rise Of Cross-Market Hospital Systems And Their Market Power In The US
Jaime King, Alex Montague, Tim Greaney et al.
November 7, 2022