Deficits for millionaires?But notfor sick kids
Republican Congressional leaders have been so busy cutting taxes for rich people that they haven’t gotten around to funding the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
It serves 8.9 million children nationwide and provides maternity care for about 370,000 women.
CHIP serves children in families that earn too much to qualify for traditional Medicaid but not enough to afford private insurance.
In
CHIP covers about 27,000
The program, begun in 1997, is credited with helping cut the uninsured rate for children from 14 percent to 5 percent.
Families can afford to take their kids to the doctor for preventive care, meaning that potential health problems are headed off before they become serious, making them less costly to treat when kids do get sick. The program is aimed at the working poor and has thus been popular with
Not this year. CHIP funding expired
Since then
No child has lost care yet as federal officials have shuffled money between states to cover shortfalls.
As inept as
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