Vox

By: Dylan Scott

We’ve been talking a lot about two big deadlines for health care this month:

-September 27, the last day for insurers to sign their contracts to sell Obamacare plans in 2018 and the self-imposed deadline for any bipartisan stabilization bill in the Senate
-September 30, the day the special “budget reconciliation” privileges expire for Senate Republicans to repeal Obamacare with only 51 votes

But wait, there’s more: Also on September 30, funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program expires. For reasons we do not have to get into, the money wouldn’t just run out on October 1, but nevertheless, advocates have chided Congress for letting the deadline get this close without acting.

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“This is ridiculous. It’s already too late,” Joan Alker, executive director of Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, told reporters at a briefing last week. “We have never had a situation like this before.”

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