WBUR

By: John Nash and Sandra Fenwick

When Congress allowed the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to expire in September, it missed its first opportunity for bipartisan action to ensure more children have access to health care. In the rush to leave Washington for the holiday recess, Congress passed an extension to fund CHIP through March 2018 by providing $2.85 billion. This temporary fix is far from the five years of funding that was promised, and absent a longer-term fix, millions of children could lose health coverage. Already, according to Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University Policy Institute, 1.9 million children in 25 states are at risk of losing coverage in January.

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