• 9 million kids get health insurance under CHIP. Congress just let it expire.
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[QUOTE]Congress just allowed the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which provided low-cost health insurance to 9 million children, to expire. If action is not taken soon to restore the funding, the effects will become obvious in schools across the country, with many of the children in the program unable to see a doctor for routine checkups, immunizations, visits when sick and other services. The program, [B]created under a 1997 law passed with bipartisan support during the administration of President Bill Clinton[/B], provided coverage for children in families with low and moderate incomes as well as to pregnant women. [B]It was instrumental in lowering the percentage of children who were uninsured from nearly 14 percent when it started to 4.5 percent in 2015.[/B] It was last reauthorized in 2015 and was due to be renewed by Sept. 30, 2017. Amid unsuccessful efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, [B]the Republican-led Congress allowed the CHIP deadline to pass without action.[/B] The program was primarily funded by the federal government, with states paying a good deal less. States still have some CHIP money available, but if Congress does not act quickly to restore the program, they will start to run out. Several states and the District of Columbia are expected to drain CHIP funding by the end of this year and many more by March 2018, [URL="https://www.macpac.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Federal-CHIP-Funding_When-Will-States-Exhaust-Allotments.pdf"]according to this government report.[/URL] The program cost the federal government about $13.6 billion in 2016. The program provided services that included, according to the government’s website: [QUOTE]Routine checkups Immunizations Doctor visits Prescriptions Dental and vision care Inpatient and outpatient hospital care Laboratory and X-ray services Emergency services [/QUOTE] How much did it cost families? The website said: [QUOTE]Routine “well child” doctor and dental visits are free under CHIP. But there may be [URL="https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/co-payment"]co-payments[/URL] for other services. Some states charge a monthly [URL="https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/premium"]premium[/URL] for CHIP coverage. The costs are different in each state, but you won’t have to pay more than 5% of your family’s income for the year. [/QUOTE] That could soon change. [/QUOTE] [URL]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/10/01/9-million-kids-get-health-insurance-under-chip-congress-just-let-it-expire/?utm_term=.451f0b7f3250[/URL]
"Pro-life"
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;52736895]"Pro-life"[/QUOTE] They don't give a fuck about that child's life after it's born.
In a good world, this would be a fucking casus belli. As if half the things that have happened since the election aren't already casus bellis.
My father died when I was 6 me and my brother used this injunction badger care (wisconsin). I'm 26 now and lucky I have a good job with good coverage. But this sucks for families that rely on this. You're actually making people sicker by denying them access to health services. Like a routine check up could turn up something and save you/gov't an ass load of cash before it develops into something serious.
Unless I understand CHIP wrong, the funding is dispersed at the start of the year so there may be time enough to get a renewal approved. Also: [url]https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/27/16373494/chip-funding-reauthorization-congress[/url] [quote] There was finally positive movement in Congress on CHIP a few weeks ago. Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), the chair and ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee respectively, announced the outline of a deal to keep CHIP funded. It would: - Extend CHIP's funding for five years, a big win for advocates who wanted a long-term extension - Maintain Obamacare's enhanced CHIP federal funding for two more years and then start to phase it down to traditional levels. The 2010 law boosted the federal share by 23 percent — advocates knew that was unlikely to continue indefinitely but wanted a gradual phaseout to make sure states could adjust. [/quote] Shitty ass representatives who put it on hold in favor of that awful Graham-Cassidy bill.
[QUOTE=Reds;52736899]They don't give a fuck about anyone except themselves.[/QUOTE] Fixed it.
what a fucking joke of a congress, the moment they got a whiff of being able to tear at the ACA they dropped everything and jumped on it, wasting weeks of vital time for no fucking reason.
[QUOTE=KingofBeast;52736924]Unless I understand CHIP wrong, the funding is dispersed at the start of the year so there may be time enough to get a renewal approved.[/QUOTE] soon "let us repeal obamacare or we won't give chip funding"
[QUOTE=Wii60;52737371]soon "let us repeal obamacare or we won't give chip funding"[/QUOTE] Make Sophie's Choice Great Again
I love it when it's something to do with spying or the armed forces they're staying extra hours to get it passed. But when it relates to social services, it's no fucks given with it, and it goes expired.
Congress has wasted effectively all their time this year on trying to push through healthcare "reform" that nobody wants. They're still supposed to debate and pass a major infrastructure bill, a tax bill, and the [I]fucking budget[/I] by January 3. I won't be remotely surprised if, some-fucking-how, a [I]totally Republican-controlled government[/I] will cause a government shutdown when they fail to pass a budget.
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;52736895]"Pro-life"[/QUOTE] They're more like "Pro Birth".
[QUOTE=.Isak.;52739330]Congress has wasted effectively all their time this year on trying to push through healthcare "reform" that nobody wants. They're still supposed to debate and pass a major infrastructure bill, a tax bill, and the [I]fucking budget[/I] by January 3. I won't be remotely surprised if, some-fucking-how, a [I]totally Republican-controlled government[/I] will cause a government shutdown when they fail to pass a budget.[/QUOTE] Nobody in the GOP actually has any idea what they're doing
[QUOTE=.Isak.;52739330]Congress has wasted effectively all their time this year on trying to push through healthcare "reform" that nobody wants. They're still supposed to debate and pass a major infrastructure bill, a tax bill, and the [I]fucking budget[/I] by January 3. I won't be remotely surprised if, some-fucking-how, a [I]totally Republican-controlled government[/I] will cause a government shutdown when they fail to pass a budget.[/QUOTE] they wanna do partisan tax "reform" before the december break now, because rewriting 1/6th of the economy on a whim wasn't grand enough, they're gonna try to rewrite the whole thing in less time.
[QUOTE=Sableye;52741380]they wanna do partisan tax "reform" before the december break now, because rewriting 1/6th of the economy on a whim wasn't grand enough, they're gonna try to rewrite the whole thing in less time.[/QUOTE] And the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is again being threatened by drilling, and the Republicans want to attach it to the tax plan. There are Republicans who oppose the ANWR being exploited for oil, and so this will build opposition against the tax reform bill if it's tacked on. And if ANWR gets pulled off to prevent it from poisoning the tax bill, it's just [I]one[/I] of the poison pills the GOP has indicated they want to attach to the bill so they can ram it all through with only 50 votes using budget reconciliation. [URL="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/10/02/republicans-are-the-party-of-ideological-inconsistency/"]I read a WaPo analysis/opinion piece that basically laid out how the Republican party is ideologically incoherent and doesn't have a strong, united base.[/URL] This was visibly demonstrated in the multiple attempts to repeal the ACA this summer and the fact that they failed because Republicans could not find 50 out of 52 votes because too many in the party thought it went too far in slashing health care, but at the same time too many in the party thought it [I]didn't go far enough[/I], and both groups were too large for any form of consensus to be achieved even with the President begging for a successful vote. And then there's John McCain who voted the bills down not because he wanted them to be more or less destructive, but because he objected to the one-party-rule method in which they were rammed through without debate or consultation through abuse of Senate procedure. Republicans control the Federal government and they're too disorganized and unstable to even pass a bill without the help of the Democrats after making symbolic votes for that same bill for seven years when they knew it wouldn't matter. Meanwhile, so the article goes, Democrats have a fairly solid degree of party unity and ideological unity going on. If only they'd stop doing bullshit like trying to pass harsh anticonsumer international trade treaties like the TTIP, I suspect they'd have won this last election. Lest this post be interpreted as being incapable of doing anything but dumping on Republicans, it should be noted that [URL="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/10/02/house-republicans-propose-puerto-rico-funding-as-part-of-chip-bill/"]House Republicans want to tie increased funding for Puerto Rico into the CHIP reauthorization bill.[/URL] Puerto Rico's treatment by the federal government has been nothing short of abjectly shameful under both parties' watch, but at least something's being done to try and help them rebuild. It's pretty sick that it required a catastrophic natural disaster to effectively take everything away from the American citizens living there for DC to take notice that things weren't so great down there, but if it results in positive change, good. There's also the fact that if Puerto Rico is fucked but good, it's very likely that many PRicans will move to Florida -- and if they aren't happy with Trump/Republicans by the next election, the emigration will be more than enough to flip the influential swing state blue. That's real bad for Republicans, especially because the 2020 census means whichever party is in power gets to decide voter redistricting.
Holy shit what the fuck is even happening anymore.
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