The Children’s Health Insurance Program and Medicaid are the MVPs of children’s coverage.  About 8 million children with low to moderate incomes are covered by CHIP while 39 million children are covered under Medicaid.  The Affordable Care Act built upon the success of these two vital health coverage programs in many ways including an extension of CHIP funding through September 2015.  With CHIP funding set to expire next year, many questions have been raised about the future of CHIP.

Last week, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Alliance for Health Reform hosted a briefing on Capital Hill to discuss CHIP and some of the key policy and financing questions around children’s health coverage.

CCF’s Joan Alker joined Robin Rudowitz of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, Robert Stewart of CBO and Cathy Caldwell of the Alabama Department of Public Health for a panel discussion moderated by Diane Rowland of Kaiser and Ed Howard of the Alliance.

For the full materials associated with the briefing, please visit the Alliance for Health Reform website.