Nevada lawmakers debate public health care option proposal

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - Hospitals and insurance companies clashed with affordable health care advocates in the Nevada Legislature’s first hearing on a proposal to create state-run health ... Read More

Public health care option up for debate in Nevada legislature - KRNV

Lobbyists representing doctors and hospitals clashed with affordable health care advocates on Tuesday in the Nevada Legislature’s first hearing on a proposal to create state-run health insurance ... Read More

Nevada’s public health care option proposal, explained by Nicole Cannizzaro - Vox

Health care providers that accept the state’s Medicaid patients or the state employees’ health insurance plan would be required to accept patients on the public option plan. Read More

These states tried an Obamacare public option. It hasn’t worked as planned. - POLITICO

A trio of Democratic Western states hailed passage of their public health insurance options as important steps toward finishing Obamacare’s work of providing universal health coverage. But an ... Read More

States Are Leading the Way on a Public Health Insurance Option

Colorado and Nevada both signed public health insurance options into law in June, and Washington state recently updated its public option, first approved in 2019. Read More

Nevada's new effort to reduce uninsured residents with state health insurance - Reno Gazette Journal

Nevada’s newest effort to reduce its stubbornly high rate of uninsured residents with a state-managed health insurance option is hurtling toward passage amid superheated debate about whether the ... Read More

Nevada state senator files suit to scuttle public health care option - Reno Gazette Journal

Nevada State Sen. Robin Titus, R-Wellington, along with the National Taxpayers Union, filed a lawsuit over the constitutionality of legislation passed to bring a state-managed public health care ... Read More

Lawsuit Challenging Nevada’s Public Option Dismissed

During the course of the legislative debate over health reform in 2009 and 2010, the “public option”—generally envisioned as a government-administered insurance plan competing against ... Read More

Nevada lawmakers debate public health care option proposal - KTNV 13 Action News

CARSON CITY (AP) — Nevada lawmakers are considering creating a state-run health insurance plan that could compete with private insurance companies on the state's health insurance exchange. A ... Read More