Tag: Children’s Health Insurance Program

Trump calls on Congress to pull back $15 billion in spending, including on Children’s Health Insurance Program

The following article by Damian Paletta and Erica Werner was posted on the Washington Post website May 7, 2018:

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President Trump is sending a plan to Congress that calls for stripping more than $15 billion in previously approved spending, with the hope that it will temper conservative angst over ballooning budget deficits.

Almost half of the proposed cuts would come from two accounts within the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that White House officials said expired last year or are not expected to be drawn upon. An additional $800 million in cuts would come from money created by the Affordable Care Act in 2010 to test innovative payment and service delivery models. Continue reading “Trump calls on Congress to pull back $15 billion in spending, including on Children’s Health Insurance Program”

States Face Children’s Health Coverage Uncertainty

The following article by Sandhya Raman was posted on the RollCall website November 20, 2017:

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About two months after federal funding lapsed for the Children’s Health Insurance Program, state officials still don’t know exactly when they’ll run out of money or when Congress will renew funding — leaving families that depend on the program increasingly anxious about their benefits.

At least a few states say that they could exhaust funds as soon as next month. States are growing more concerned about the program with just a few days left on the congressional calendar until December and no signs that lawmakers plan in the immediate future to renew funding.  Continue reading “States Face Children’s Health Coverage Uncertainty”

Republican-Controlled House of Representatives failing to take action as critical children’s health care programs set to expire

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Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Chairman Ken Martin today called on Representatives Erik Paulsen, Jason Lewis, and Tom Emmer along with their colleagues in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives to step up and take immediate action to fund critical children’s health insurance programs before they run out of funding.

 “While Republicans temporarily called off efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, it’s unfortunately still too soon to say they didn’t take away health care from millions of Americans,” DFL Chairman Martin said. “Amid their frantic efforts to undermine our health care system, Republicans dropped the ball on funding health care programs critical to the health of millions of children.” Continue reading “Republican-Controlled House of Representatives failing to take action as critical children’s health care programs set to expire”