Project Description
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
Options for states to constrain pricing power of health care providers
Katie Gudiksen & Robert Murray
October 19, 2022
Can Taxes Help Address High Health Care Prices?
Katie Gudiksen and Jaime King, et al.
April 25, 2022
Are State Public Option Health Plans Worth It?
Jaime King & Katie Gudiksen et al.
March 2, 2022
Consolidation of Health Care Providers
Katie Gudiksen
February 10, 2022