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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums9 million kids get health insurance under CHIP. Congress JUST LET IT EXPIRE.
While we fretted about OUR insurance, they whacked our kid's insurance!Source: Washington Post, by Valerie Strauss
Congress just allowed the Childrens 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.
The program was primarily funded by the federal government, with states paying a good deal less. States still have some CHIP money available, but if Congress does not act quickly to restore the program, they will start to run out. Several states and the District of Columbia are expected to drain CHIP funding by the end of this year and many more by March 2018, according to this government report.
Read the rest at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/10/01/9-million-kids-get-health-insurance-under-chip-congress-just-let-it-expire/?utm_term=.9c8ec74e0e61
treestar
(82,383 posts)And how much should we bet that it will adversely impact many Deplorables?
GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)They don't give a shit. May it be political suicide for the lot of them.
onethatcares
(16,133 posts)comes from US. YOU, ME, MY WIFE, YOUR HUSBAND AND ALL OF US THAT PAY TAXES.
I want you to have a better life and I want your kids to be healthy and educated. I pay for that every damn day.
roamer65
(36,739 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)They are on a roll.
roamer65
(36,739 posts)Matthew28
(1,796 posts)is probably going to let the poor die to give it all to the rich. They want a class system that has the Rich as the barons and the poor as the serfs.
The serfs can die within their minds...Same mindset that the right has always had going back to 15th century Europe.
roamer65
(36,739 posts)dalton99a
(81,070 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)Is it just petty revenge? They might float excuses about costs, but what happens to those costs when 9 million kids get sick from communicable diseases that were easily preventable by cheap vaccines? Unvaccinated and sick kids can't attend school, and federal money is tied to attendance reports, so is this some macabre Republican notion of undermining public education? Maybe it's the Republican plan for genocide or ethnic cleansing because they think poor people are always black and brown and therefore expendable.
lastlib
(22,981 posts)They learned it from Timothy McVeigh.....
THROW THESE FUCKERS THE FUCK OUT!!
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Martin Eden
(12,803 posts)"Reform" sounds like progress, but it's regressive.
Mrs. Overall
(6,839 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)SunSeeker
(51,377 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,287 posts)They are sociopathic killers.
Baby killers.
I would like to see these terms being used in the mainstream. Because they reflect fact.
not fooled
(5,791 posts)Back to Dickensian England
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Same shit, different assholes
Spy Car
(38 posts)CHIP has been a signature achievement of Hillary Clinton's foray into reforming health care during Bill Clinton's presidency. While the bigger plans failed, CHIP helped ensure millions of children.
Those who said, "there is no difference" between the parties, lied.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)........ them. "Fuck them" is just not extreme enough for the way I feel about them.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)roamer65
(36,739 posts)The look on some of these deplorables will be priceless when they get turned away from the doctor offices.
What saddens me is people with children who voted for Hillary will get hurt as well.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)CHIP, ACA, etc. That's just damn vile.
Stargazer99
(2,539 posts)which is a Republican just said shelter, food medical care is a privilege
diva77
(7,605 posts)sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)it's getting to be a pattern.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)and they call themselves "Christians"
Mathew 19:14 Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."
not fooled
(5,791 posts)Too bad it would make fake xtian pukes break out in hives.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)I hope all the republicans that did this while trying to get a trillion dollar tax cut for billionaires rammed through Congress ROT IN HELL!!!!!!!!!