Congress Delays Decision on CHIP Renewal Until Next Year
December 21, 2017
By: Linda Jacobson
Source: Education Dive
Dive Brief:
- For 20 years, the state-run Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) has provided medical, dental and vision coverage for children in families who earn too much for Medicaid but don’t have or can’t afford private insurance. Now, families will have to wait until next year to find out if funding for the program will continue, New York magazine reports.
- The program will run out of money in early 2018 if Congress doesn’t find a way to extend funding, and some states have already issued statements indicating that they are no longer enrolling children in the program and that current recipients might soon lose coverage.
- The House passed a bill in early November that provided funding for the program, which covers about nine million children, but Democrats are opposed to its provisions…