CO: Pregnant women due in Feb have been told unless CHIP funding is restored

[ehrnst]

their health coverage will expire before they give birth.

DENVER – Colorado's financial reserves have kept the Children's Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, running since Congress allowed funding to expire at the end of September.

But Erin Miller, vice president of health initiatives with the Colorado Children's Campaign, says those reserves are almost tapped, and unless Congress restores funding, some 90,000 children and pregnant women who rely on the program annually could lose coverage.

"If we don't have a federal guarantee that financing for this program is going to continue, families are going to get letters letting them know that their coverage is ending, that they need to find new coverage,” she explains. “And so those letters are scheduled to go out at the end of December, because coverage is going to end at the end of January."

http://publicnewsservice.org/2017-12-20/childrens-issues/childrens-health-insurance-funding-nears-end-in-colorado/a60728-1

[dlk]

1. The Ugly Truth About Republican "Family Values" is Being Revealed

[Ilsa]

2. Trump's America: Leaving pregnant women out in the proverbial cold to give birth.

What a way to observe Christmas! Are we going to put them through hiding their baby boys so they won't be murdered to keep them from challenging king donald?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Pro-life!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. Maybe anti-choicers can take up a collection?

Maybe?

[procon]

4. "find new coverage? If someone is poor enough to qualify for CHIP,

how do they find, let alone afford, new health insurance? What happens to all those kids and mothers when they are left with no choice but to use the ER or do without? The burden will fall on hospital ERs to provide unfunded healthcare services, further driving up costs in our unworkable for-profit system.

[ehrnst]

6. And of course, those kids school attendance and performance will be impacted

allowing the GOP to point at those "poorly performing public schools" as evidence that we need vouchers....

[PearliePoo2]

5. People that are financially fragile should be doing ALL they can to prevent unwanted pregnancies.

This is an entire new cruel, uncaring administration and there's no end in sight to the destruction they have planned. Our country is becoming truly unrecognizable.

[Dulcinea]

8. SMH.

"And what does that get us? A lazy, discontented rabble instead of a thrifty working class."

--Mr. Potter, "It's A Wonderful Life"

[dembotoz]

9. Just drop the kid and get back in the fields