White House Patch

By: Cody Fenwick

As Republicans scrambled for one last-ditch attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare before the Sept. 30 deadline, a vital program that provides health care coverage for millions of kids across the country has come to the brink of expiration. Funding for CHIP, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, will start to run dry on Oct. 1 if Congress doesn’t act — and it is increasingly looking like it won’t.

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According to Joan Alker, the executive director of the research group Center for Children and Families at Georgetown university, 25 percent of kids who receive health insurance through CHIP have special needs.

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