Business Insider
By: Brennan Weiss
Time is running out yet again for Congress to agree on a long-term solution for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), a bipartisan measure that insures close to 9 million children and pregnant women across the US.
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“The new CBO score is great news because a major sticking point has been how to pay for CHIP,” Tricia Brooks, a healthcare policy expert and former CHIP director for New Hampshire, told Business Insider. Last month, when Congress allocated $2.85 billion in additional funding to keep CHIP running a couple extra months in the most vulnerable states, some lawmakers complained that they didn’t have enough money to pay for the program.
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