NBC News
By: PHIL MCCAUSLAND
More than 1.75 million children in 20 states and Washington, D.C., are at risk of losing their health insurance by the end of February if Congress does not reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which ceased being funded when lawmakers failed to pass a spending bill late Friday night.
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“There are many, many questions, and it’s very troubling that we’ve gotten to this point,” said Joan Alker, the executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University. “It’s an unprecedented situation. I’ve been working on CHIP since it was born in 1997, and I’ve never seen anything like this before. It’s very sad.”
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