Media Coverage

Dallas News By: Caroline Kelly House and Senate committees each approved bills last week to renew the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which expired Sept. 30, for five years. Most states have leftover CHIP funds, but four expect to run out by December. … “Obviously most advocates are not going to be in support of paying…

PBS NewsHour By: Laura Santhanam CHIP made health care affordable for Bell’s family, whose kids are among more than 87,000 enrolled children in Mississippi. But until Congress acts, her puzzle is missing a piece. … A summer filled with attempts to dismantle Obamacare drained time and resources from passing other legislation, even CHIP, which has…

Houston Public Media By: Abner Fletcher Insurance coverage for more than 390,000 Texas children and pregnant women is in jeopardy. Patrick Bresette, executive director of the Children’s Defense Fund’s Texas office, joins us to discuss how the CHIP program works, its history, and what hurdles remain to its reauthorization. … Listen to broadcast here.

Death Rattle Sports By: Klopa Robin Advocates are worried that about 27,000 Missouri children are at risk of losing their health care coverage if Congress fails to renew funding for a bipartisan program enacted under the Clinton administration. … “This is very troubling that Congress hasn’t gotten this done,” said Joan Alker, executive director of…

WHYY By: Dick Polman … Weeks before CHIP was allowed to expire, a kids’ health advocate — Joan Alker, director of Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, told a press briefing, “This is ridiculous. We’ve never had a situation like this before.” … Read more here.

Doylestown Patch By: Tom Davis Children’s advocates and state officials across the country have pleaded with Congress to renew a health insurance program used by millions. … “Congress should have acted to extend CHIP funding months ago,” said Kelly Whitener from the Center for Children and Families, a policy outlet at Georgetown University. “States cannot…

Capital Public Radio By: Sammy Caiola About two million California children get check-ups, vaccinations, emergency visits and other benefits through the program, and available federal funding will dry up by the end of the year if Congress doesn’t take action. … Mayra Alvarez of The Children’s Partnership, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit, says the last time…

Education Week By: Alyson Klein and Christina A. Samuels The highest-profile of the two programs to expire is the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which Congress failed to extend by the end of September, could put a financial strain on states—and eventually jeopardize coverage for the roughly 9 million children covered by the program. … Lawmakers…

News-Press By: Frank Gluck Florida received nearly 96 percent of the $686 million budgeted last year for CHIP from the federal government and has $359 million remaining, according to the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration. That’s likely enough to continue the program just into 2018, according to estimates from the Medicaid and CHIP Payment…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch By: Samantha Liss Advocates are worried that about 27,000 Missouri children are at risk of losing their health care coverage if Congress fails to renew funding for a bipartisan program enacted under the Clinton administration. … “This is very troubling that Congress hasn’t gotten this done,” said Joan Alker, executive director of…

Concord Monitor By: Ethan DeWitt But while the New Hampshire program is safe at least until the next budget negotiations in 2019, some are still urging caution. At a press conference Friday, Sen. Maggie Hassan and Rep. Ann Kuster, both Democrats, said that the lapse of CHIP, if made permanent, would spell problems down the…

Tampa Bay Times By: Kirby Wilson Funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program has expired, but that shouldn’t affect Florida — for now. … According to Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families, the U.S. government covered about 96 percent of the $686.6 million Florida spent in 2017 to cover children in families earning too…

Iowa Public Radio By: Clay Masters Iowa is one of 38 states that radically changed the way it runs Medicaid over the past few years. The state moved about 600,000 people on the government-run health program into care that is managed by for-profit insurance companies. … So where’s the savings? So far, no state has…

York Dispatch By: Jason Addy As Republican lawmakers made one final push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act at the end of September, federal funding expired for almost 9 million children and teens covered by the Children’s Health Insurance Program. … Despite lawmakers working to re-fund the program, Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children President…

Urban Milwaukee By: John Peacock A state’s lagging economic performance can have a silver lining – in the form of increased federal assistance. Thanks to a Medicaid formula that currently provides more generous cost-sharing to states that are below average in per capita income, Wisconsin’s rather anemic personal income growth will save the state millions…

Healthcare Dive By: Les Masterson Congress missed a Sept. 30 deadline to reauthorize the federal/state program, which costs about $14 billion annually and covers children of families with low and moderate incomes. The program has wide bipartisan support, but Democrats don’t support legislation proposed by Republicans that would cut other health programs like Medicare or…