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By: Elana Gordon

For more than two decades, The Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, has provided health coverage to millions of kids nationwide. But lawmakers have yet to reauthorize it, and that’s putting states whose funding expires soon in a bind. In Pennsylvania, that could jeopardize health care for upwards of 150,000 kids come February.

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A report from Georgetown’s Center for Children and Families found that Pennsylvania is one of a handful of states coming up with some contingency plan before the end of the year. At least six states, according to the report, will run out of funding by the end of the year, or early January. Delaware’s Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance projects its CHIP funding will last through January. About 8,300 children are currently enrolled, with a total cost of $30 million.

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