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Lawmakers in Washington: Extend the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and do it stat
LancasterOnline Editorial Board People don’t agree on much these days. But we’ll wager that most of us agree on this: Children ought to have health insurance. And community health centers that serve low-income families ought to be funded. Which is why it came as a surprise to many that federal funding for the Children’s Health…
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Health care reform efforts complicate CHIP extension
Special Education Connection Efforts in Congress to renew the Children’s Health Insurance Program have begun to steer off course as some lawmakers want to attach other health care reform proposals to the CHIP legislation. … “If we can’t extend CHIP, it will put undue stress on kids and families and that will have a ripple…
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Health Care: Here’s How Many Texas Kids Are At Risk Because Of Congress
Patch By Don Johnson Nearly 9 million kids across the country rely on health insurance from CHIP, the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Although it’s not a controversial program, Congress let its funding expire Oct. 1 — and many states may soon tell millions of families that their insurance plans are ending. In Texas, 1.1 million…
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Pay for health coverage for kids? Not so fast | Editorial
There’s no more glaring example of this basic failure of governance than the expiration this past weekend of federal funding of the Children’s Health Insurance Program and other critical safety-net programs that provide services to hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians and millions more people nationwide. … In Pennsylvania, 176,241 children receive services through CHIP, a joint federal…
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Congress Moves Toward Funding Lapsed Federal Children’s Health Insurance Program
CNBC By: Dan Mangan Congress already blew one deadline for reauthorizing the federal Children’s Health Insurance Program. Now it’s trying to not blow through another looming one. Two committees — one in the Senate, the other in the House — are set Wednesday to begin marking up bills that would continue funding for CHIP. ……
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The Brewing New Health Care Fight in Congress, Explained
Vox By: Dylan Scott Funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program expired on October 1, and states will start running out of money soon, putting coverage for 9 million children at risk. … “Obviously it is not a good idea to set up a situation where there may be delays in accessing prenatal care or…
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Federal Funding Lapse Raises Concerns About CHIP, but Officials Say there’s Reason for Optimism
Lancaster Online By: Heather Stauffer Federal funding for CHIP expired Saturday, raising questions about the future of the Children’s Health Insurance Program that covers just over 10,000 children in Lancaster County and roughly 9 million nationwide. Lawmakers, state officials and local providers said the lapse won’t cause any immediate changes here, but they’re concerned about…
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More Kids Have Insurance But Advocates Fear For The Future
WXPR By: Soundbite Source Kansas and the rest of the country saw the number of uninsured children drop to historic lows in 2016, according to a new report. The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families found fewer than five percent of children nationwide are uninsured. In Kansas, the rate dropped from 5.1 percent in…
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CHIP Extension Dangerously Delayed Past Expiration Date
New York Magazine By: Ed Kilgore The lack of urgency was rationalized by the fact that all states have a positive balance of CHIP money, and most could operate the program past the beginning of 2018. But the delay in reauthorizing CHIP will have real consequences if it lasts much longer. As Talking Points Memo…
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Editorial: Florida Needs CHIP to Insure Children
The Herald Tribune Editorial Florida has positive momentum in its efforts — supported by the federal government — to reduce the number of children not covered by some form of health insurance. … As the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families reports, “Florida has cut its rate of uninsured children by more than half…
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Who Will Succeed Tom Price?
The Washington Examiner By: Philip Klein, Robert King, and Kimberly Leonard States start to prepare for the worst with CHIP. State officials are worried about the future of the program, despite lawmaker assurances they will reauthorize it. … Nevada expects to run out of funds by late November or early December and may have to…
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Which States Are Hit Hardest By Failure To Fund Children’s Health Program?
Talking Points Memo By: Alice Ollstein Over the weekend, Congress allowed funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which covers nearly 9 million children in low-income families, to lapse—failing to pass a reauthorization by Saturday’s deadline after spending most of the year attempting to repeal the Affordable Care Act. … Joan Alker, the executive…
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CHIP Covers 9 Million Kids. Its Funding Expired this Weekend
Vox By: Sarah Kliff In mid-September, key senators struck a deal to extend the budget for the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which covers 9 million low- and middle-income kids. Other senators were making progress on a small package to stabilize the Affordable Care Act. But all of that work ground to a halt as the…
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What’s Next for HHS After Tom Price’s Resignation
Politico Pulse Dan Diamond … States say they’ll run out of CHIP funds faster than projected, Georgetown CCF’s Tricia Brooks warns. Newsletter links to Tricia’s blog. … Read newsletter here.
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Advocates for Children’s Health Insurance Program Await Action from Congress
The Morning Call By: Laura Olson As Congress debated another attempt at repealing the Affordable Care Act last week, legislators failed to meet a deadline to pay for the Children’s Health Insurance Program, creating uncertainty for a program that draws bipartisan support nationally and in Pennsylvania. The 176,000 children enrolled in Pennsylvania — including nearly…
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Iowa’s Proposed Medicaid Cut Could Signal New Republican Strategy
The Associated Press By: Barbara Rodriguez Iowa is seeking permission from President Donald Trump’s administration to cut a key benefit for all its Medicaid recipients, a move that could foreshadow other state-level efforts to change the safety net program after Congress repeatedly failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Federal health officials could decide soon…
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CHIP, Other Federal Safety Net Programs Went Over a Cliff this Weekend
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette By: Kate Giammarise and Sean Hamill Because Congress failed to act in time, multiple safety net funding programs will head over a fiscal cliff this weekend, including those that provide for children’s health care, rural hospitals, and Medicaid and uninsured patients. But efforts in the House are expected to begin next week…
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Children’s Healthcare to Run Out of Money
Death and Taxes Magazine By: Jennifer M. Wood For months, the GOP has repeatedly tried — and repeatedly failed — to write a healthcare bill that will allow them to fulfill Donald Trump’s campaign promise to repeal and replace Obamacare. In the midst of all this scheming that could ultimately see 23 million Americans without…
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9M Kids’ Health Insurance At Risk As Congress Lets CHIP Expire
White House Patch By: Cody Fenwick As Republicans scrambled for one last-ditch attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare before the Sept. 30 deadline, a vital program that provides health care coverage for millions of kids across the country has come to the brink of expiration. Funding for CHIP, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, will start…
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The Health 202: Here’s How Tom Price Could be Spending his Time
The Washington Post By: Paige Winfield Cunningham With repeal-and-replace stalled indefinitely in Congress — which has hurt prospects for any smaller legislative tweaks — the second bucket may be the only opportunity that remains if Trump and his appointees want to make their mark on health care. Part of the delay could be because Price…