Child healthcare advocates have been warning, and warning, and warning that Congress’ delay on reauthorizing funds for the Children’s Health Insurance Program places health coverage for as many as 9 million children and pregnant women at risk. As of Thursday, Congress will have gone 60 days without funding a program delivering healthcare to millions of low-income children. States trying to keep their CHIP programs operating have tried a variety of stratagems, according to Mattie Quinn of Governing Magazine. (Kaiser Family Foundation)In recent years, however, even the principle of providing health coverage for children has become infected with budget-hawk ideology. Currently, a CHIP funding bill is frozen because the GOP insists on taking money from ACA public health programs to pay for it, an idea that Democrats won’t accept.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 27, 2017 23:10 UTC