Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to extend Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) funding along with other health care provisions in the Championing Healthy Kids Act (wait for it…the Community Health and Medicaid Professionals Improve Our Nation, Increase National Gains, and Help Ensure Access for Little Ones, Toddlers and Hopeful Youth by Keeping Insurance […]
Last week we released a new report on the consequences of delayed Congressional action on CHIP. Federal funding for CHIP expired 32 days ago, an unprecedented lapse in CHIP’s 20-year history. States are quickly running out of federal funding, with Arizona, Minnesota, and Oregon slated to exhaust federal funds before the end of December. If […]
This week we released a new report on the consequences of delayed Congressional action on the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Federal funding for CHIP expired 27 days ago, an unprecedented lapse in CHIP’s 20-year history. Some policymakers have reasoned that the situation is not urgent because all states have some unspent funds available from […]
Funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) expired 26 days ago and Congress still hasn’t acted. I have been working on CHIP since its inception, and this is unprecedented! Today we are releasing a report that unpacks some of the implications of Congressional inaction beyond the beltway. We didn’t survey all 50 states but […]
Funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) expired nearly a month ago and Congress still has not passed legislation to extend funding. Researchers at Georgetown University’s Center for Children and Families took a look at the consequences of the delay in CHIP funding. “This delay in funding CHIP is really unchartered territory and puts […]
Nationwide 95.5 percent of children had health insurance in 2016, up from 95.2 percent the previous year—and up from 92.9 percent in 2013, the year before the ACA was fully implemented. While relatively few children rely on the ACA’s Marketplace for insurance, many gained coverage in Medicaid or CHIP when their parents signed up for […]
