For months, as Congress held off on reauthorizing the Children’s Health Insurance Program, Mead fretted about how she’d manage if she had to buy private insurance through her nonprofit employer. The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is now at risk of becoming the latest casualty of Washington’s dysfunction, if lawmakers don't act. They don’t understand how unfair the process was to say, ‘We’re going to toy around with your children’s health insurance for a while and see what comes out of it.’ ”In Oregon, Gov. And an untold number of parents bought insurance policies they couldn’t afford to help keep their children healthy. “They treated my kids’ health insurance like it was a game,” Mead said.

Source: Washington Post January 30, 2018 16:07 UTC