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. What it does do, though, is ensure that a significant number of Americans will lose or drop insurance coverage over the next decade. Though, really, the other issue was an inaction — Congress failing to renew the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP. Last year, just shy of 9 million children were enrolled in the program nationally, excluding those children enrolled in Medicaid. On Wednesday, the state of Connecticut announced that it was ending its coverage program for children unless CHIP was renewed shortly.

Source: Washington Post December 21, 2017 16:28 UTC