Vox
By: Dylan Scott
Democrats and Republicans have so far failed to find an agreement to reopen the federal government, and as a result, the Children’s Health Insurance Program is still without long-term funding.
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“The inexcusable delays in extending CHIP … have brought us to a moment now when the CHIP debate no longer has anything to do with CHIP,” Joan Alker, executive director of Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, told me via email. “The policy is long settled, and there are no offsets needed — CHIP has merely become a bargaining chip. This is a very sad state of affairs.”
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