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Canada Goose Online One said the federal government had failed to extend CHIP after funding expired in September and the stopgap funding had run out. The program would be shutting down and families would lose their insurance. The program will go on and no children will lose their health insurance. Canada Goose Online

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“Those aren’t huge dollar amounts,” Nablo said. “I think the cost more is in the worry from parents.”

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CHIP is a match program states and the federal government split the cost. When states made their budgets for this year, they assumed federal funding for CHIP would be there, so they were blindsided by the funding gap.

Every state’s calculus for how long they could run on leftover money was different. In Texas, Hurricane Harvey threw off that state’s projections. Because of the disaster, it waived fees for CHIP and enrollment spiked, so it had less money coming in and more going out.

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canadian goose jacket A handful of states including Virginia sent out letters warning families their coverage was in jeopardy because of the uncertainty in Congress. canadian goose jacket

cheap canada goose uk “One state Connecticut did freeze enrollment between the week of Christmas and New Year’s,” said Joan Alker of the Georgetown University Center For Children and Families, which monitored CHIP funding closely during the last few months. cheap canada goose uk

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“I can’t quantify it, but I am sure there are states that held off on things like mounting an outreach program to encourage people to canada goose coats enroll because they didn’t know if the program was going to be there for them,” she Canada Goose sale canada goose outlet said. “There may have been states that were thinking of implementing some efficiencies or innovations, but didn’t because again is the program going to be there?”

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Alker is happy with the CHIP deal Congress passed. She does point out it’s the same one they, so she’s not sure why it took a shutdown to finally get it through.

canada goose coats The deal keeps the federal investment in the program at its current level for two fiscal years. After that, the amount that states https://www.canadagoosejacketonlines.ca have to pay for the program will increase. canada goose coats

buy canada goose jacket cheap “At least states now have time to plan for that,” Alker said. “Overall, it really was a fair and reasonable compromise.” buy canada goose jacket cheap

Canada Goose Outlet She is puzzled, though, as to why it was only a six year extension when the Congressional Budget Office estimated extending CHIP for 10 years would save the federal government $6 billion. Canada Goose Outlet

“The six year [extension] is a small saver it saves just under a billion dollars,” Alker said. “Now there’s nothing preventing Congress from coming back as they move ahead with the bigger budget deal they could come back and extend CHIP for four more years and grab those savings.”

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Alker does worry that the months of uncertainty around CHIP may have already caused children to drop out of the program, increasing the uninsured rate among children. That should become clear in the fall, when the Georgetown Center For Children and Families does its annual assessment of the children’s uninsured rate.

canada goose clearance If that trend develops nationally, it hasn’t been the case in Virginia, where CHIP enrollment went up this past fall canada goose clearance.