Children's Health Insurance Program is set to go bust
Source: CBS News
If you're waiting and wondering what the future holds for the Children's Health Insurance Program, the answer most likely depends on where you live.
CHIP is a popular, bipartisan program that provides a safety net for nearly 9 million kids in low- and mid-income families. It's the latest pawn in the Congressional wrangling over health care. Both the Senate and House are debating bills to reauthorize CHIP funding, and both are considering these bills after the Sept. 30 deadline for reauthorization has passed.
"CHIP has always had bipartisan support since it started 20 years ago," said Jesse Cross-Call, senior policy analyst at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). "So it has really been a surprise that it's taking this long to get it funded. Congress has never blown past the deadline before, so we're in uncharted territory."
Missing the deadline means an estimated 11 states will run out of federal CHIP money by the end of this year, and 32 states are expected to run out of money by March 2018, according to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chip-childrens-health-insurance-program-congress-funding/
According to the linked article there is a patchwork of how various states fund and administer children's health insurance programs, some are set to run out of funds in just a few months if Washington can't come up with a funding deal...... further proof that universal healthcare / single payer is needed more than ever.
The Senate currently has a bill to fund children's healthcare programs, but (surprise surprise) doesn't specify how it will be funded.
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and screw innocent children in the process. Equal opportunity screwing based on income, right? Nobody told these assholes that millions of Trump supporting rural white families have CHIP for their kids?
