Media Coverage

The Vindicator By: Justin Wier Slightly more than 80 percent of Youngstown City School District students receive health care through Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program – the highest percentage in Ohio. Two other Mahoning Valley schools round out the top 11, with 71.9 percent of students in the Warren City School District and…

Detroit News By: Melissa Nann Burke The U.S. Senate’s consideration of the latest Republican health care repeal bill might imperil the federal program that helps states provide health insurance for low-income children, including roughly 116,000 in Michigan. An extension for the Children’s Health Insurance Program is needed by Sept. 30, when current funding is expected…

Soundbite Services 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 2015 to…

Modern Healthcare By: Shelby Livingston As Sept. 30 approaches, pediatric providers are grappling with the potential loss of funding for two programs responsible for huge gains in health insurance coverage for children. … The 36 states that maintain separate CHIP programs are not mandated to continue them, however. “They would start shutting down those programs…

Arizona Daily Star By: Stephanie Innes Without congressional action, a federal health insurance program that covers nearly 9 million children, including 22,000 in Arizona, is set to expire Sept. 30. And with debate and attention focused on attempts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is in peril,…

The Diamondback By: Kaanita Iyer Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Tuesday announced his opposition to the new health care bill Republican senators introduced to replace the Affordable Care Act, citing the loss of billions of dollars to this state. A bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, will hit the Senate…

The Pittsburg Post-Gazette By: Kate Giammarise, Tracie Mauriello, and Chris Potter Advocates of the latest Obamacare repeal effort, the Senate’s Graham-Cassidy bill, have touted it as a way to give control of healthcare to states and allow for greater innovation. … “Governors are not magicians. They can’t create a good system when they are being…

Arkansas Online By: Andy Davis Arkansas would lose $6 billion in federal health care funding over seven years under legislation aimed at undoing much of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to estimates by a health care consulting firm. … Marquita Little, health care policy director for Arkansas Advocates for Children and…

Daily Kos By: Laura Clawson Sen. Bill Cassidy’s response to being called out by Jimmy Kimmel was, as Kimmel put it in his Wednesday night monologue (video below), to “pull the all comedians are dummies card” by smarming “I am sorry he does not understand.” Too bad for Cassidy Kimmel really does know what he’s talking about—and has the…

MSNBC By: Steve Benen It started in May. As regular readers know, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel spoke on the air about his young son’s heart surgery, and his belief that all Americans should have access to affordable, potentially life-saving, care. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) soon after began referencing the “Jimmy Kimmel Test”: for a health care…

Vanity Fair By: Abigail Tracy Few Republicans, let alone most Americans, seem to know what’s in Graham-Cassidy, the fifth incarnation of the effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, though the bill may be on the verge of passing the Senate. There have been no public hearings, and no official score from the Congressional Budget Office.“If there was an…

Fox and Friends … Fox and Friends host cites Georgetown CCF in question to Bill Cassidy. … Watch here.

ABC News By: Ali Rogin, MaryAlice Parks, Meridith McGraw Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., has been touting a health care bill authored by him and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. Below are four statements by Cassidy about the legislation and our analyses of them, based on conversations with health care experts. … “CHIP does not regulate insurance markets,…

Politico By: Dan Diamond Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel ripped into Sen. Bill Cassidy on Tuesday for having promised to support health care legislation that protected children and helped the uninsured, only to craft a bill months later that Kimmel — and many health care analysts — say won’t do that. … “It’s hard to imagine…

Politico By: Dan Diamond In the war of words between Jimmy Kimmel and Sen. Bill Cassidy, the late-night host has the better grasp of health policy, health care analysts say. Kimmel — who had allied himself with Cassidy after the senator famously proposed a “Jimmy Kimmel test” for health reform — blasted the Louisiana Republican’s…

Wisconsin Gazette By: Lisa Neff The number of Wisconsinites who do not have health insurance fell sharply during the first three years of the Affordable Care Act, according to survey data released in September by the U.S. Census Bureau. About 218,000 fewer Wisconsin residents were uninsured in 2016 than in 2013 — a decline of…

The Monitor By: Berenice Garcia Much of the national debate in recent months has focused on the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, by Republican legislators. However, prominent Democratic legislators have recently come out in support of a single-payer healthcare plan. This was among the topics panelists covered at Tuesday’s symposium.…

Casa Grande Dispatch By: Bethany Blundell As a father and grandfather, U.S. Rep. Tom O’Halleran, R-Sedona, said it breaks his heart to see children not receiving the care they need. Because of that, he has partnered with health care providers in the state to call upon Congress to continue funding for the Children’s Health Insurance…

Deseret News By: Jessie Mandle and Charles Pruitt As kids head back to school, it is a crucial time to engage parents and help them learn about different health insurance options for their families. CHIP is one of the first programs low-income parents learn about for their children. Parents pay premiums and their kids get…

The Village Voice By: Nina Pearlman Last Tuesday, the Senate Finance Committee announced it had reached a bipartisan agreement to extend funding for the national Children’s Health Insurance Program for five more years. The announcement, coming after months of pressure from children’s advocacy organizations, marked the first step toward renewing funding for the program, which…