Nearly 5 Million Children Could Lose Their Health Insurance Next Month (NYT)

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/14/us/children-at-risk-of-losing-health-care-CHIP.html
Nearly 5 Million Children Could Be at Risk of Losing Health Coverage Next Month
By HAEYOUN PARK | DEC. 14, 2017

Lawmakers have yet to renew federal funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which insures nearly nine million children in low-income families. Most states will run out of money in the next few months if Congress does not act.

Five of the states — Colorado, Connecticut, Texas, Utah and Virginia — have already said that they could terminate the program, which insures children whose parents earn too much for Medicaid but cannot afford other coverage.

Each state runs the program separately, so they will run out of money at different times. When formulating their 2018 budgets, most of the states had assumed that the federal government would keep the program funded.

Federal funding expired on Sept. 30, and Congress has not been able to agree on how to pay for the program, which has historically had strong bipartisan support.

[BigmanPigman]

1. The GOP wants to bankrupt and kill the 99%.

Happy Holidays!

[quartz007]

3. Can not happen! Who will do the work

for the top 1%? There can not be a King without a mass of subjects.

[BigmanPigman]

5. True.

It makes me think of the film Metropolis. It is the GOP dream come true.

[dalton99a]

6. +1

[Matthew28]

2. The gop

wants to turn America into a third world country with most of its population dying.

[quartz007]

4. Not until the stock market crashes...

It is just one black swan event from crashing.
Did you know the market is more overvalued on
inflation adjusted 10 year average than in 1929?

[crazycatlady]

7. Yet Paul Ryan wants us to reproduce

[dalton99a]

8. "You make them, we abuse them

and kill them when they get sick

[lunasun]

9. I was wondering how my state stays off the chart then I got to the end and see they are not reportig

By the latest 2019 it's most likely the entire country CHIP is gone
Wiki
The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)[1] – formerly known as the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) – is a program administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides matching funds to states for health insurance to families with children.[2] The program was designed to cover uninsured children in families with incomes that are modest but too high to qualify for Medicaid.

The program came in response to the failure of comprehensive health care reform proposed in 1993 by President Bill Clinton. The legislation to create it was sponsored by Senator Edward Kennedy in a partnership with Senator Orrin Hatch[3] with support coming from First Lady Hillary Clinton during the Clinton administration.[4][5][6] At its creation in 1997, SCHIP was the largest expansion of taxpayer-funded health insurance coverage for children in the U.S. since[citation needed] Lyndon Johnson established Medicaid in 1965.[7] The statutory authority for CHIP is under title XXI of the Social Security Act.