The health reform blueprint unveiled by President Obama earlier this week is being described everywhere as an amalgamation of the Senate and House bills. When it comes to children’s coverage, though, that’s not quite the case.
While the House has proposed to scrap the popular Children’s More…
Scott Brown, the Republican newly elected to replace the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), has been surprisingly forthcoming about his vote in favor of the health reforms adopted by Massachusetts a few years back — reforms that include the same individual coverage mandate that many Republicans More…
First of all, take all the weeks of merger negotiations and throw them out the window: It’s looking more and more like the only way the Democrats can pass health care reform — and they must pass health care reform — in the wake of yesterday’s election in More…
A prominent children’s healthcare advocate in Montana is putting pressure on Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the Finance Committee, to fight for a provision of the Senate’s health reform bill that would preserve the Children’s Health Insurance Program. House Democrats are pushing to terminate CHIP in 2014, More…
We’ve been writing for months that a major hurdle facing Democratic leaders as they merge the House and Senate heath reform proposals is what to do with the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP. The House has proposed to terminate CHIP at the end of 2013, citing the More…
Last year’s expansion of the Children’s Health Insurance Program was the legislative high point of the last decade, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the Finance Committee, told Montana’s Great Falls Tribune.
Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said the expansion of the Children’s
One of the more curious aspects of the months-long debate over health care reform has been the inattention that the media has given the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Roughly two years ago, when the Democrats’ plans to expand CHIP were twice met by President George W. Bush’s veto More…
Ironing Out Health Reform
After months of marathon hearings, partisan bickering and fiery floor debate, Democrats in both the House and the Senate have passed expansive health care reform bills. Now comes the hard part.
Although the two Democratic bills share the central goals of controlling health care costs and More…
Senate supporters of the Children’s Health Insurance Program won two years of additional funding for the popular federal-state program under the upper chamber’s health reform bill, but it remains unknown what will become of that provision when Senate leaders sit down next month with those in the House, More…
It’s not the five years of additional funding many advocates were hoping for, but the Senate’s compromise on health reform does include money to extend the Children’s Health Insurance Program for two additional years, thereby preventing millions of CHIP kids from shifting into private plans on newly created insurance exchanges at More…
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