Millions of kids may lose health insurance over missed deadline by Congress

NBC News

By: Elizabeth Chuck

The diagnosis was dire: Roland Williams, a St. Louis boy with a megawatt smile and a penchant for painting, had an extremely rare form of lung cancer, oncologists told his mother in May 2016.

“CHIP and Medicaid have worked together, particularly over the past decade, to reduce the number of uninsured children to historic levels,” said Joan Alker, executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University. The program needs to be periodically reauthorized, but up until recently it wasn’t considered a particularly controversial piece of legislation.

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