{"id":26334,"date":"2026-07-31T07:35:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26334"},"modified":"2026-07-31T07:35:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:35:30","slug":"senate-democrats-eye-public-option-in-insurance-reform-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26334","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats eye public option in insurance reform push"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By: Jakob Emerson for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senate Democrats want more information on how to enact private health insurance reforms, including feedback on establishing a federal public option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 86-page RFI, published July 30, asks stakeholders and policy experts for their input on dozens of potential policy changes aimed at lowering costs and expanding coverage, all with the intention to inform future legislation rather than proposing a bill.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/policy-updates\/senate-democrats-eye-public-option-in-insurance-reform-push\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/policy-updates\/senate-democrats-eye-public-option-in-insurance-reform-push\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By: Jakob Emerson for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Senate Democrats want more information on how to enact private health insurance reforms,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21,20,200,40],"tags":[97,385,238,2131,67,859],"class_list":["post-26334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-health-insurance","category-m4a-and-public-option-plans","tag-aca","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-insurance-reform","tag-medicaid","tag-public-option"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26335,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26334\/revisions\/26335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}