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

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 because the Senate parliamentarian is leaning against allowing those measures in the AHCA -- a move that could jeopardize the reauthorization of CHIP funding, 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...