Senate May Have To Handle ACHA Stability Funding, Cost-Sharing Subsidies In CHIP Bill

By John Wilkerson / June 21, 2017 at 8:42 PM
Lawmakers are considering shifting stability funding and cost-sharing subsidies from the American Health Care Act to legislation that funds the Children's Health Insurance Program, which would jeopardize the reauthorization of CHIP funding, because the Senate parliamentarian is leaning against allowing those measures in the AHCA, lobbyists say. The latest development is an example of the unexpected ways that CHIP funding is becoming ensnared in the politics of the House-passed American Health Care Act, despite broad bipartisan support for the children's...


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