The Damage to Children's Health Insurance Is Already Being Done
Right now, a draft of a letter informing thousands of Virginia parents that their kids might lose their health coverage just after the holidays is sitting on Linda Nablos desk. People are going to panic, Nablo, who is the chief deputy director of the Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services, told me. Its going to cause mass confusion. Its going to be an increase in the lack of trust in government, that government will do what it says it will do. People will lose their managed-care plans. Theyll lose their provider. Its going to cause chaos.
Nablo and her colleagues have drafted the letter because, for more than 50 days, Congress has failed to reauthorize funding for the Childrens Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, a federal-state initiative that covers about nine million lower-income kids. Within weeks, states will start running out of money, leaving them scrambling to patch the holes in their budgets or forced to suspend their programs and drop coverageas Virginia expects it would have to do. Every day that goes by, were getting increasingly concerned, Nablo said. Nobody ever anticipated wed be in this situation. Were taking very concrete steps as if were going to shut this program down.
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This administration is evil