Children and pregnant women will suffer if Congress fails to act on CHIP
Colorado’s U.S. senators joined on as co-sponsors to a bill that would set aside more than $15 billion a year to resume funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Sens. Michael Bennet, a Democrat, and Cory Gardner, a Republican, are a bipartisan example for their colleagues.
The New York Times reported that two states are preparing to run out of money for CHIP before the end of the year, and 27 additional states will run out of money by March.
Colorado officials told The Denver Post there is enough reserve money in the system to get through the end of January, but after that the health insurance provided for 75,000 kids and 800 pregnant women in Colorado would be in jeopardy.
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