{"id":2121,"date":"2017-11-28T21:11:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/28\/republican-priorities-put-childrens-health-at-risk\/"},"modified":"2017-11-28T21:11:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T21:11:00","slug":"republican-priorities-put-childrens-health-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/republican-priorities-put-childrens-health-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Priorities Put Children\u2019s Health at Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans let the Children&rsquo;s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) expire in September. Now, instead of renewing the program, Republicans are prioritizing a tax plan that would raise taxes on half of American households and blow a hole in the federal deficit. Many states could be forced to kick children and pregnant mothers off their health insurance plans unless Congress acts before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of working on a common-sense solution, House Republicans tried to tie CHIP funding to deep cuts to preventative health programs and increased Medicare costs. While Republicans try to push through massive tax giveaways to billionaires and wealthy corporations, nearly 9 million children across the country are at risk of losing their health insurance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This week, Colorado health officials started sending letters to<\/strong> <strong>families of the more than 75,000 kids covered by CHIP, warning them that their children&rsquo;s health insurance may expire on January 31.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedenverchannel.com\/news\/politics\/colorado-sends-letters-to-chp-recipients-warning-that-federal-match-runs-out-at-end-of-january\">The Denver Channel:<\/a> &ldquo;The letters sent out Monday warn people &lsquo;there is no guarantee&rsquo; Congress will restore the funding, and said that if Congress doesn&rsquo;t act by late December, the state will send a letter to the same group of people letting them know when their CHP+ benefits end and what others plans they might qualify for.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Ohio, about 200,000 children on CHIP could lose their coverage if Congress doesn&rsquo;t act to renew federal funding before the end of the year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/healthfit\/index.ssf\/2017\/11\/healthcare_for_200000_ohio_chi.html\">Cleveland Plain-Dealer:<\/a> &ldquo;&lsquo;The fact that reauthorization has been delayed for political reasons, for shallow campaign promises, is inexcusable. Our elected officials that are holding this up should be ashamed of themselves,&rsquo; said Bill Considine, CEO of Akron Children&#39;s Hospital. &lsquo;The fact that we&#39;re putting those families and children at risk, in the country we live in, there are no words that can justify it.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Minnesota, federal funding has already run out for the more than 125,000 Minnesota children who rely on CHIP for accessible health care.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/health-human-services\/tns-minnesota-chip-funding.html\">Governing.com:<\/a> &ldquo;Minnesota and four other states received leftover federal CHIP funding &mdash; about $4.6 million in Minnesota&rsquo;s case &mdash; after the September deadline. However, the state Department of Human Services said that it had exhausted those funds this month. It is now making up the loss of federal CHIP funds with state monies, though the department was unable to say how much the state is now spending to make up for the loss of federal funds.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Arizona, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/azcapitoltimes.com\/news\/2017\/10\/31\/arizona-governor-doug-ducey-free-health-care-poor-children\/\"><strong>state officials have warned<\/strong><\/a><strong> that they may need to redirect state funding in order to continue covering more than 23,000 kids on CHIP.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/local\/arizona-health\/2017\/11\/01\/arizona-keep-kids-health-care-program-funded-but-how-long-up-air\/823732001\/\">AZ Central:<\/a> &ldquo;Still, cutting off the federal funds for the Children&#39;s Health Insurance Program &mdash; called KidsCare in Arizona &mdash; or even just reducing them could have a dire impact on kids&#39; health-care coverage, something experts consider to be a key safety net in keeping children out of the state&#39;s foster-care system.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In California, 1.3 million children are at risk of losing their health insurance. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sacramento.cbslocal.com\/2017\/11\/27\/children-at-risk-of-losing-health-insurance-if-congress-doesnt-act\/\">CBS Sacramento:<\/a> &ldquo;The California Department of Health Care Services says &lsquo;if CHIP is not reauthorized, the Governor and legislature would need to deliberate on how best to address the population no longer eligible for federal CHIP funding.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\">[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;&lsquo;The state is gonna receive a lot less federal funding for the program and if CHIP goes away, that&rsquo;s gonna blow essentially a billion dollar hole in our state budget,&rsquo; said California Senator Dr. Richard Pan.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Virginia health officials are worried they could be forced to end the program that covers 66,000 Virginia kids if the state doesn&rsquo;t receive federal funding by late January.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/states-prepare-to-shut-down-childrens-health-programs-if-congress-doesnt-act\/2017\/11\/23\/01a6169e-ba7d-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html?utm_term=.5c704103eda7\">The Washington Post:<\/a> &ldquo;&rsquo;We don&rsquo;t want to act too fast if Congress is going to restore this, but we also want to give families enough time,&rsquo; she said. &lsquo;We have kids in the middle of cancer treatment, pregnant women in the middle of prenatal care.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Oregon, state officials are preparing to allocate $35 million from state funds to cover the program for 120,000 Oregon kids.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2017\/11\/kate_brown_will_spend_35_milli.html\">Oregon Live:<\/a> &ldquo;The final cost to the state will depend on whether any federal extension of the program is retroactive to October 1. The plans Congress is currently considering would do so, according to a Nov. 17 memorandum from Oregon&rsquo;s health agency. But if the funding is not retroactive, it &lsquo;would cause a hole in the (Oregon Health Authority) budget that would need to be reconciled,&rsquo; the agency wrote.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Texas, state officials are worried that federal funding could run out sooner than expected because of Hurricane Harvey. About 450,000 children <\/strong><strong>and 35,000 pregnant women in Texas are on CHIP.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/states-prepare-to-shut-down-childrens-health-programs-if-congress-doesnt-act\/2017\/11\/23\/01a6169e-ba7d-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html?utm_term=.e6582ae72acf\">The Washington Post:<\/a> &ldquo;Funding problems there were exacerbated by Hurricane Harvey because the state asked the federal government that it be allowed to waive co-pays and enrollment fees for CHIP children in counties declared disaster areas. With less money coming in, funds could be exhausted even sooner than the state first projected, according to Christine Mann, spokeswoman for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Wisconsin, nearly 118,000 children could be dropped from their health insurance and the state could lose $115 million a year if Congress doesn&#39;t renew CHIP.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/11\/28\/wisconsin-could-lose-115-million-if-congress-doesnt-renew-childrens-health-program\/899776001\/\">The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:<\/a> &ldquo;Without a renewal of the CHIP program, federal taxpayers will cover only 59% of the costs of insuring those children in Wisconsin. That&#39;s a difference that adds up to about $9.5 million more per month that state taxpayers will have to pay to maintain the coverage.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Los republicanos dejaron expirar el Programa de Seguro M&eacute;dico para Ni&ntilde;os (CHIP, por sus siglas en ingl&eacute;s) hace dos meses. Ahora, en lugar de trabajar para renovar el programa, los est&aacute;n priorizando un plan tributario que aumentar&iacute;a los impuestos a la mitad de los hogares estadounidenses y abrir&iacute;a un agujero en la deuda federal. Muchos estados podr&iacute;an verse obligados a dejar sin seguro a ni&ntilde;os y madres embarazadas a menos que el Congreso act&uacute;e antes de fin de a&ntilde;o.<\/p>\n<p>En vez de trabajar por una soluci&oacute;n de sentido com&uacute;n, los republicanos de la C&aacute;mara de Representantes intentaron unir la aprobaci&oacute;n de fondos para CHIP con recortes a programas preventivos de salud y el aumento de los costos de Medicare. Mientras los republicanos hacen todo por recortar los impuestos de los multimillonarios y las grandes corporaciones, casi 9 millones de ni&ntilde;os en todo el pa&iacute;s corren el riesgo de perder su seguro de salud.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Esta semana, los funcionarios de salud de Colorado comenzaron a enviar cartas a las familias de los m&aacute;s de 75,000 ni&ntilde;os cubiertos por CHIP, advirti&eacute;ndoles que el seguro de salud de sus hijos podr&iacute;a expirar el 31 de enero de 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedenverchannel.com\/news\/politics\/colorado-sends-letters-to-chp-recipients-warning-that-federal-match-runs-out-at-end-of-january\">The Denver Channel<\/a>: &#8220;Las cartas enviadas el lunes advierten a la gente &#39;no hay garant&iacute;as&#39; de que el Congreso restablecer&aacute; los fondos, y dijo que si el Congreso no act&uacute;a a fines de diciembre, el estado enviar&aacute; una carta al mismo grupo de personas dej&aacute;ndoles saber cu&aacute;ndo terminan sus beneficios de CHP+ y a qu&eacute; otros planes podr&iacute;an calificar&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>En California, 1.3 millones de ni&ntilde;os est&aacute;n en riesgo de perder su seguro de salud con CHIP.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sacramento.cbslocal.com\/2017\/11\/27\/children-at-risk-of-losing-health-insurance-if-congress-doesnt-act\/\">CBS Sacramento<\/a>: &ldquo;El Departamento de Servicios de Atenci&oacute;n M&eacute;dica de California dice &lsquo;si CHIP no es reautorizado, el Gobernador y la legislatura tendr&iacute;an que deliberar sobre la mejor manera para dirigirse a la poblaci&oacute;n que ya no es elegible para los fondos federales de CHIP&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\">[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\">&rsquo;El estado recibir&aacute; mucho menos fondos federales para el programa y si CHIP se va, eso b&aacute;sicamente causar&aacute; un hueco de bill&oacute;n de d&oacute;lares en nuestro presupuesto estatal&rsquo;, dijo el senador de California Dr. Richard Pan&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>En Texas, los funcionarios estatales temen que el financiamiento federal se agote antes de lo esperado debido al hurac&aacute;n Harvey. Alrededor de 450,000 ni&ntilde;os y 35,000 mujeres embarazadas en Texas est&aacute;n aseguradas con CHIP.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/states-prepare-to-shut-down-childrens-health-programs-if-congress-doesnt-act\/2017\/11\/23\/01a6169e-ba7d-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html?utm_term=.e6582ae72acf\">The Washington Post<\/a>: &ldquo;Los problemas de financiamiento se vieron agravados por el hurac&aacute;n Harvey porque el estado le pidi&oacute; al gobierno federal que le permitiera renunciar a los copagos y las tarifas de inscripci&oacute;n para los ni&ntilde;os de CHIP en los condados declarados zonas de desastre. Con menos dinero entrando, los fondos podr&iacute;an agotarse incluso antes de lo que el estado proyect&oacute; por primera vez, seg&uacute;n Christine Mann, portavoz de la Comisi&oacute;n de Salud y Servicios Humanos de Texas&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>En Arizona, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/azcapitoltimes.com\/news\/2017\/10\/31\/arizona-governor-doug-ducey-free-health-care-poor-children\/\"><strong>las autoridades estatales advirtieron<\/strong><\/a> <strong>que podr&iacute;an necesitar redirigir los fondos estatales para continuar cubriendo a m&aacute;s de 23,000 ni&ntilde;os con CHIP.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/local\/arizona-health\/2017\/11\/01\/arizona-keep-kids-health-care-program-funded-but-how-long-up-air\/823732001\/\">AZ Central<\/a>: &ldquo;Aun as&iacute;, cortando los fondos federales para el Programa de Seguro de Salud para Ni&ntilde;os &#8211; llamado KidsCare en Arizona &#8211; o incluso reducirlos podr&iacute;a tener un impacto grave en la cobertura de salud m&eacute;dico de los ni&ntilde;os, algo que los expertos consideran una red de seguridad clave para mantener a los ni&ntilde;os fuera del sistema de cuidado de crianza del estado&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Los funcionarios de salud de Virginia est&aacute;n preocupados de que puedan verse obligados a terminar el programa que cubre a 66,000 ni&ntilde;os de Virginia si el estado no recibe fondos federales a fines de enero.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/states-prepare-to-shut-down-childrens-health-programs-if-congress-doesnt-act\/2017\/11\/23\/01a6169e-ba7d-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html?utm_term=.5c704103eda7\">The Washington Post<\/a>: &ldquo;&lsquo;No queremos actuar demasiado r&aacute;pido si el Congreso va a restaurar esto, pero tambi&eacute;n queremos dar a las familias tiempo suficiente, tenemos ni&ntilde;os en medio de tratamientos de c&aacute;ncer, mujeres embarazadas en el medio de la atenci&oacute;n prenatal&rsquo;&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>En Oregon, los oficiales del estado se est&aacute;n preparando para destinar $35 millones de los fondos estatales para cubrir el programa de 120,000 ni&ntilde;os.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2017\/11\/kate_brown_will_spend_35_milli.html\">Oregon Live<\/a>: &ldquo;El costo final para el estado depender&aacute; de si cualquier extensi&oacute;n federal del programa es retroactiva al 1 de octubre. Los planes que el Congreso est&aacute; considerando actualmente lo har&aacute;n, seg&uacute;n un memor&aacute;ndum del 17 de noviembre de la agencia de salud de Oreg&oacute;n. Pero si el financiamiento no es retroactivo, &lsquo;causar&iacute;a un hueco en el presupuesto (de la Autoridad de Salud de Oreg&oacute;n) que tendr&iacute;a que conciliarse&rsquo;, escribi&oacute; la agencia&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>En Wisconsin, casi 118,000 ni&ntilde;os podr&iacute;an perder su seguro de salud y el estado podr&iacute;a perder $115 millones por a&ntilde;o si el Congreso no renueva el CHIP.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/11\/28\/wisconsin-could-lose-115-million-if-congress-doesnt-renew-childrens-health-program\/899776001\/\">The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/a>: &ldquo;Sin una renovaci&oacute;n del programa CHIP, los contribuyentes federales cubrir&aacute;n s&oacute;lo el 59% de los costos de asegurar a esos ni&ntilde;os en Wisconsin. Esa es una diferencia que suma aproximadamente $9.5 millones m&aacute;s por mes que los contribuyentes estatales tendr&aacute;n que pagar para mantener la cobertura&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>En Ohio, alrededor de 200,000 ni&ntilde;os podr&iacute;an perder su cobertura con CHIP si el Congreso no act&uacute;a para renovar los fondos federales antes de fin de a&ntilde;o.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/healthfit\/index.ssf\/2017\/11\/healthcare_for_200000_ohio_chi.html\">Cleveland Plain-Dealer<\/a>: &ldquo;&#39;El hecho de que la reautorizaci&oacute;n se haya retrasado por razones pol&iacute;ticas, por promesas superficiales de campa&ntilde;a, es inexcusable. Los oficiales electos que est&aacute;n sosteniendo esto deber&iacute;an estar avergonzados de s&iacute; mismos&#8221;, dijo Bill Considine, director ejecutivo de Akron Children&#39;s Hospital. &#8220;El hecho de que estamos poniendo en riesgo a esas familias y ni&ntilde;os, en el pa&iacute;s en el que vivimos, no hay palabras que lo justifiquen&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>En Minnesota, ya se han agotado los fondos federales para los m&aacute;s de 125,000 ni&ntilde;os de Minnesota que dependen de CHIP para obtener cuidado de salud accesible. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/health-human-services\/tns-minnesota-chip-funding.html\">Governing.com<\/a>: &ldquo;Minnesota y otros cuatro estados recibieron los fondos federales restantes de CHIP &#8211; alrededor de $ 4.6 millones en el caso de Minnesota &#8211; despu&eacute;s de la fecha tope de septiembre. Sin embargo, el Departamento de Servicios Humanos del estado dijo que hab&iacute;a agotado esos fondos este mes. Ahora est&aacute; compensando la p&eacute;rdida de los fondos federales de CHIP con fondos del estado, aunque el departamento no pudo decir cu&aacute;nto est&aacute; gastando para compensar la p&eacute;rdida de fondos federales&rdquo;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans let the Children&rsquo;s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) expire in September. Now, instead of renewing the program, Republicans are prioritizing a tax plan that would raise taxes on half of American households and blow a hole in the federal deficit. 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