Rockefeller Plans Hearing To Examine CHIP Reauthorization

Senate Finance health subcommittee Chair Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) plans to hold a hearing next Tuesday ( Sept. 16) on the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which is slated to lose funding in September 2015 if Congress does not act. Children's advocates have urged Congress to start looking into extending CHIP funding as soon as possible, but congressional sources expect most of the debate on the issue will happen next year. Rockefeller, a longtime advocate for CHIP and Medicaid, has already...