Alabama is first state to freeze enrollment to Childrens Health Insurance Program

Alabama is the latest state to bear bad news to recipients of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), warning families Monday that it will no longer enroll children starting Jan. 1, 2018 and will terminate the program entirely on Feb. 1, 2018 if Congress fails to act.

Congressional lawmakers have yet to renew federal funding for CHIP since the program expired on Sept. 30. Since then, state officials have had to relay devastating news of funding shortages to families of modest incomes right around the holidays.

CHIP provides low-cost health coverage to nearly nine million children nationwide, and provides insurance to roughly 150,000 Alabama children, 84,000 of which are at risk of losing coverage through the state’s CHIP, dubbed ALL Kids. (In 20 states, CHIP also covers pregnant women.) The state-administered program is jointly financed, and federal money accounts for more of the share — between 65 to 85 percent.

https://thinkprogress.org/alabama-first-freeze-enrollment-to-childrens-health-insurance-program-89b1c019335f/


So now with a new tax bill scam coming down the pike, and damn near all of the "blue states that have been subsidizing the red states, what is this state going to do now......................I know punt, blame the federal government and not there right wing fascist representatives......................