Obamacare expiration will have ‘death spiral’ effect on US healthcare – experts

When you increase premiums dramatically, "the healthy people drop out and therefore the pool is sicker", said Gerard Anderson, a professor of health policy and management at Johns Hopkins University. 

It becomes a "death spiral", Anderson said. "The sicker people are the only ones that stay in the program until it becomes no longer sustainable and the insurance company stops even offering the plan," Anderson said. 

Those people with high deductibles or no insurance could also struggle to pay medical bills if they become sick or injured…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/14/aca-obamacare-expires

 

Suddenly, Pence suggests, investigations into the president have expiration dates - The Washington Post

Vice President Pence calls for an end to the Mueller probe "in the interest of the country." ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/10/suddenly-pence-suggests-investigations-into-the-president-have-expiration-dates/

CBO: Extending CHIP for 10 years instead of 5 will not cost the government anything

It's been 103 days since the Republican Congress allowed funding to expire for the Children's Health Insurance Program and community health centers, and the only thing those Republicans have done about it is to pass a Band-Aid of $2.85 billion in temporary funding. That funding will not prevent some states from having to shutter programs starting as early as next month.....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/11/1731919/-CBO-Extending-CHIP-for-10-years-instead-of-5-will-not-cost-the-government-anything

95 days after CHIP funding expires, House Republicans are passing the buck

It's been 95 days since the Republican Congress allowed funding to expire for the Children's Health Insurance Program and community health centers.

Rep. Tom Cole said Tuesday the House has passed a bill funding the Children's Health Insurance Program, but the Senate needs to act in order for the funding to continue. "We've continued to fund it on a short-term basis," Mr. Cole, Oklahoma Republican, said on CNN. "The House has passed a bill. I think it's a good bill. The Senate's got to pass a bill so we can go to conference."....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/3/1729552/-95-days-after-CHIP-funding-expires-House-Republicans-are-passing-the-buck

Republicans Can't Scrounge Up $8 Billion for Children's Medical Care -- Mother Jones

Dylan Scott writes today about the the Children's Health Insurance Program. Funding ran out last month, and Republicans have so far shown no inclination to extend it: CHIP's funding expired on October 1, and the program has now gone four weeks without being extended. States are on the clock: ....
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/10/republicans-cant-scrounge-up-8-billion-for-childrens-medical-care/

Kill-A-Kid for Congress - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z9_3nyZqIo

Day 10 of no Children's Health Insurance Program and the Republican Congress is doing nothing

The Children's Health Insurance Program, covering 12 percent of the nation's children expired on September 30. Today in the Republican-led House, they are having a hearing. One hearing. Not about CHIP. The Republican-led Senate gaveled in for a minute or two, with no members present, then adjourned. They're gone for the week.....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/10/1705790/-Day-10-of-no-Children-s-Health-Insurance-Program-and-the-Republican-Congress-is-doing-nothing

Children's health insurance expired nearly two weeks ago, and the Republican Congress doesn't care

States across the nation are eyeing their budgets—and their children's health programs—with trepidation, hoping they've got enough funding to last until Congress finally gets its act together and reauthorizes the program which expired at the end of September. Eleven states only have a few months of funding, and most states can only go through the winter with the funding they've got on hand. Alaska is one of them.....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/9/1705580/-Children-s-health-insurance-expired-nearly-two-weeks-ago-and-the-Republican-Congress-doesn-t-care