CHIP Gets Two Years of Funding Under Senate Health Bill

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…

Harkin Non-Committal on Preservation of CHIP

Though it’s been little mentioned throughout the health reform debate, there’s a showdown brewing between House and Senate Democrats over the future of the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program, previously know as SCHIP.

House lawmakers have proposed to do away with the program at the end of 2013, More…