ThinkProgress
By: Amanda Michelle Gomez
On Monday, Virginia officials said they will begin notifying families who receive coverage through the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that the program will end on January 31st if the federal government does not adequately fund it soon. WAMU 88.5 reporter Selena Simmons-Duffin first reported the news.
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“The bottom line is this putting states in a terrible position where they even have to think about this,” said Elisabeth Wright Burak, a Senior Fellow at the Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families. “It’s putting states in a bad situation and putting families in a terrible position, and it’s creating a lot of unnecessary stress.”
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