Congressional CHIP Advisers Weigh Program Extension Alternatives

Congressional Medicaid and CHIP advisers late last week looked at a handful of potential alternatives to extending the Children's Health Insurance Program, which expires in 2016. The advisers discussed the following options without formally weighing in on them: augmenting existing exchange subsidies, which currently help with the cost of premiums for those earning up to 400 percent of the federal poverty level and help cover cost sharing for those earning up to 250 percent of the federal poverty level; providing...