Researchers Float California Public Option, With a Twist
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May 19, 2023
Although multiple states have set up some version of a public option — a government-established insurance plan — on their Affordable Care Act exchanges, two researchers are striving to convince policymakers to consider a public option program in California that they say will more effectively enhance competition and bring down premiums.
The “secret sauce” of the proposal is the state’s existing “delegated model,” in which provider organizations take on some or all the financial risk associated with delivering health care services, according to Stephen Shortell, Ph.D., a health policy professor at University of California, Berkeley.
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