Children's Health Insurance Deal Not Happening Til 2018, Key GOP Senators Say

[brooklynite]

Source: Governing

With prospects for reauthorizing the Children's Health Insurance Program this year rapidly dimming, 25 states are expected to exhaust their federal funding to provide coverage for 1.9 million low-income children by Jan. 31, researchers at Georgetown University reported Wednesday.

Key Republican senators said Wednesday that the CHIP program's future would be decided next year.

Congress must pass a government spending bill by Friday night, or trigger a partial shutdown of federal operations. CHIP advocates had hoped the program, whose funding authorization ended Sept. 30, would be reauthorized as part of that legislation.

But Wednesday, Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate health committee, and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, a key player in this drama, said in a joint statement, "It has become clear that Congress will only be able to pass another short-term extension to prevent a government shutdown and to continue a few essential programs."

Read more: http://www.governing.com/topics/health-human-services/tns-chip-funding-states.html

[DesertRat]

1. This is unconscionable!

[Justice]

2. CHIP is an essential program!!!!

[kimbutgar]

3. We need to face the realization this program is dead and will not be returning

The gop don't give a shit about children or their constituents only their wealthy donors. The red states are rigged making it harder to bite them out and there are too many dumbass brainwashed people out there.

And I hope I'm wrong.

[Orrex]

4. So, to recap:

Pro-Life Family Values Republicans aggressively lobby on behalf of a predatory pedophile, they provide unending cover for a narcissistic sex offender, and they dismantle the few protections available to children in this country.


What kind of a stupid ghoul would vote for these evil fuckers in the first place?

[ck4829]

5. "Just wait til 2018"

[progree]

6. GOP includes $2.8B for children's healthcare funding in stopgap bill (funds it thru March)

House Republicans have included $2.85 billion to extending funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in a stopgap spending measure intended to prevent a government shutdown on Saturday.

The funding provides money for CHIP through the end of March

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141944744