Bipartisan CHIP-Offset Talks Fall Apart In The House

By John Wilkerson / October 18, 2017 at 8:26 PM
House Republicans and Democrats can't agree on how to pay for a five-year funding extension of the Children's Health Insurance Program, which provider lobbyists say means the House GOP will likely have to accept CHIP legislation that Republican and Democratic senators are negotiating. After a contentious markup of CHIP legislation in the House Energy & Commerce Committee that focused on CHIP offsets and funding for Puerto Rico Medicaid in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Republicans delayed a floor vote last...


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