Colorado Public Radio

By: John Daley

There are 75,000 children enrolled in Colorado’s Children’s Health Plan Plus. Each of the enrolled families has received a letter from the state advising them to consider their options, including talking to their provider about what alternative insurance they accept.

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“This is not a good way to run government and this should be an easy win for Congress,” said Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. Twenty years ago a pair of senators, liberal Ted Kennedy and conservative Orrin Hatch, teamed up to create the program. Now, Alker said, CHIP is in a squeeze, with majority Republicans not ready to fund it until they resolve other budget priorities.

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