Doylestown Patch

By: Tom Davis

Children’s advocates and state officials across the country have pleaded with Congress to renew a health insurance program used by millions.

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“Congress should have acted to extend CHIP funding months ago,” said Kelly Whitener from the Center for Children and Families, a policy outlet at Georgetown University. “States cannot turn their programs off and on like a switch, so absent funding certainty, they’ve had to make contingency plans to end their CHIP programs.”

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