Health Affairs
In the partisan world of health policy, CHIP, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, had always stood out as a bipartisan exception. However, in 2017 through the early days of 2018, Congress let CHIP funding lapse for an unprecedented 114 days. After funding was restored, Tricia Brooks discussed in detail why it took so long for Congress to act, how states had handled the funding lapse, and what the future might hold for CHIP. She also noted that the CHIP funding crisis highlighted a danger in proposals to convert Medicaid to a CHIP-like block grant structure.
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