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yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
Sun Oct 1, 2017, 03:05 PM Oct 2017

9 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 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.

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
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9 million kids get health insurance under CHIP. Congress JUST LET IT EXPIRE. (Original Post) yallerdawg Oct 2017 OP
Unbelievable treestar Oct 2017 #1
No. Sadly, it is totally believable. GoCubsGo Oct 2017 #27
that funding by the federal government onethatcares Oct 2017 #2
The Rethuglican party wants all of poor and middle income kids to die. roamer65 Oct 2017 #5
Not fond of Puerto Ricans, either. yallerdawg Oct 2017 #6
Sadly, very true. roamer65 Oct 2017 #9
The republican party Matthew28 Oct 2017 #3
This will hit low and moderate income deplorables quite significantly. roamer65 Oct 2017 #4
Republicans are murdering American children. dalton99a Oct 2017 #7
What do Republican think to accomplish by this dangerous and reckless decision? procon Oct 2017 #8
"Collateral damage" --GOPee lastlib Oct 2017 #10
A Clinton weighs in. yallerdawg Oct 2017 #11
+1 dalton99a Oct 2017 #12
Tax "reform" tax CUTS for the rich Martin Eden Oct 2017 #21
I hope this is being widely reported. Mrs. Overall Oct 2017 #13
This is the first I have heard about it. MoonRiver Oct 2017 #18
K & R for exposure. SunSeeker Oct 2017 #14
This is GOP genocide! BigmanPigman Oct 2017 #15
It's simple...they are depraved murderers. LuckyCharms Oct 2017 #16
Here we go not fooled Oct 2017 #17
Elections have consequences. Spy Car Oct 2017 #19
I need a more extreme word than fuck. smirkymonkey Oct 2017 #20
K&R Scurrilous Oct 2017 #22
I think a full on fucking revolt is the only way to stop them. Initech Oct 2017 #23
K&r UTUSN Oct 2017 #24
I wonder which state will run out of money first... roamer65 Oct 2017 #25
I know the odds are Congress will act in time, but why scare poor people who depend on Hoyt Oct 2017 #26
oh really when one of the poor excuses for a human being Stargazer99 Oct 2017 #30
I'll be calling a few members of congress tomorrow!!! K&R for exposure diva77 Oct 2017 #28
Screw the Koches, who fund the GOP and cause this. And the Koch billionaire donor network. sharedvalues Oct 2017 #29
Affirmative inaction ucrdem Oct 2017 #31
Well so much for family values vlyons Oct 2017 #32
That's a beautiful picture not fooled Oct 2017 #33
Evil damn subhuman debris workinclasszero Oct 2017 #34

GoCubsGo

(32,061 posts)
27. No. Sadly, it is totally believable.
Sun Oct 1, 2017, 11:23 PM
Oct 2017

They don't give a shit. May it be political suicide for the lot of them.

onethatcares

(16,133 posts)
2. that funding by the federal government
Sun Oct 1, 2017, 03:12 PM
Oct 2017

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.

Matthew28

(1,796 posts)
3. The republican party
Sun Oct 1, 2017, 03:12 PM
Oct 2017

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.

procon

(15,805 posts)
8. What do Republican think to accomplish by this dangerous and reckless decision?
Sun Oct 1, 2017, 03:29 PM
Oct 2017

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)
10. "Collateral damage" --GOPee
Sun Oct 1, 2017, 03:34 PM
Oct 2017

They learned it from Timothy McVeigh.....

THROW THESE FUCKERS THE FUCK OUT!!

LuckyCharms

(17,287 posts)
16. It's simple...they are depraved murderers.
Sun Oct 1, 2017, 06:05 PM
Oct 2017

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)
17. Here we go
Sun Oct 1, 2017, 06:05 PM
Oct 2017

Back to Dickensian England

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Courtesy of the Capitalist Pyramid

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Same shit, different assholes

 

Spy Car

(38 posts)
19. Elections have consequences.
Sun Oct 1, 2017, 06:08 PM
Oct 2017

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)
20. I need a more extreme word than fuck.
Sun Oct 1, 2017, 06:08 PM
Oct 2017

........ them. "Fuck them" is just not extreme enough for the way I feel about them.

roamer65

(36,739 posts)
25. I wonder which state will run out of money first...
Sun Oct 1, 2017, 10:54 PM
Oct 2017

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)
26. I know the odds are Congress will act in time, but why scare poor people who depend on
Sun Oct 1, 2017, 11:17 PM
Oct 2017

CHIP, ACA, etc. That's just damn vile.

Stargazer99

(2,539 posts)
30. oh really when one of the poor excuses for a human being
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 12:23 AM
Oct 2017

which is a Republican just said shelter, food medical care is a privilege

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
32. Well so much for family values
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 12:48 AM
Oct 2017

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."

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
34. Evil damn subhuman debris
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 12:58 AM
Oct 2017

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!!!!!!!!!

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