Dallas News

By: Caroline Kelly

House and Senate committees each approved bills last week to renew the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which expired Sept. 30, for five years. Most states have leftover CHIP funds, but four expect to run out by December.

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“Obviously most advocates are not going to be in support of paying for children’s health insurance with something that takes money away from some other vulnerable group or some other health care program,” said Anne Dunkelberg, director of the Health and Wellness Program at the left-leaning Center for Public Policy Priorities in Austin.

The Texas CHIP program would need at least a month to warn recipients and prepare a phase-out, Dunkelberg said.
“If they don’t get this going before the end of the year, and preferably November, we could have some real problems,” she said.

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