Vox

By: Sarah Kliff

In mid-September, key senators struck a deal to extend the budget for the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which covers 9 million low- and middle-income kids. Other senators were making progress on a small package to stabilize the Affordable Care Act.

But all of that work ground to a halt as the focus abruptly turned to the Graham-Cassidy plan to repeal the ACA. Those nascent plans never made it to a Senate vote. Now we’re seeing the consequences: Funding for CHIP expired this weekend — and without that stabilization package, we’re expecting double-digit Obamacare premium increases.

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“It gets worse every day,” says Joan Alker, executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University. “Starting in November, we’ll really see the consequences start to add up.”

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