Saturday, January 27, 2018

Thanks, GOP: CHIP kids have insurance, but some of them might not have a place to get care

It's been 118 days since the Republican Congress decided to take sick people hostage, and allowing funding for community health centers and the Children's Health Insurance Program to lapse. The bad press of keeping 9 million kids and their families in limbo was too much for them, so they finally took care of that in the short-term spending bill they passed Monday to end the government shutdown. But there are still 27 million people—including 9 million veterans and some of those same CHIP kids—who don't know whether they'll have access to care in the days, weeks, and months to come. They're the people who rely on community health centers, and the cuts in care are looming......
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/26/1736278/-Thanks-GOP-CHIP-kids-have-insurance-but-some-of-them-might-not-have-a-place-to-get-care

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