9 million kids get health insurance under CHIP. Congress just let it expire.
Congress just allowed the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which provided low-cost health insurance to 9 million children, to expire.
If action is not taken soon to restore the funding, the effects will become obvious in schools across the country, with many of the children in the program unable to see a doctor for routine checkups, immunizations, visits when sick and other services.
The program, created under a 1997 law passed with bipartisan support during the administration of President Bill Clinton, provided coverage for children in families with low and moderate incomes as well as to pregnant women. It was instrumental in lowering the percentage of children who were uninsured from nearly 14 percent when it started to 4.5 percent in 2015. It was last reauthorized in 2015 and was due to be renewed by Sept. 30, 2017.
Amid unsuccessful efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, the Republican-led Congress allowed the CHIP deadline to pass without action.
9 million kids get health insurance under CHIP. Congress just let it expire.
Pro-Life advocates are only too willing to lecture the rest of us about the sanctity of human life, only to respond with a "deafening silence" when the Republican dominated House and Senate, which they helped vote into office, allowed funding for the "Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)" to expire.
This program provided low-cost health insurance to 9 million of America's most vulnerable children, allowing for checkups, immunizations, visits when sick and other services which their parents might not otherwise been able to afford.
Given that these 9 million children are the result of mothers who decided to continue with full-term pregnancies instead of choosing to abort - Pro-life supporters are demonstrated a "strange" way of rewarding those who have followed their advice!