Children Advocates Aim To Extend CHIP Funding By March

Children's advocate Bruce Lesley said Friday (Jan. 23) that he and his colleagues will be pushing Congress to pass by March legislation that would extend funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for four years, or through 2019. Lawmakers could then have a complete debate about CHIP along with the maintenance-of-effort provisions for Medicaid and CHIP that also expire in 2019, Lesley, president of the children's advocacy organization First Focus, said during a panel at Families USA's annual conference...