Summary:
1. After days into the government shutdown in January of 2018, congress at last agreed on a deal to reopen and fund the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)- which expired more than 100 days prior (Quinn, 2018). CHIP currently serves more than 9 million low-income children in addition to pregnant women who do not have employer-based insurance, but also who do not qualify for Medicaid (Quinn, 2018). CHIP is funded by the federal government (80%)- but also by the states as well; overall, this was the first time in national history that there was a remarkable delay in funding in what has previously been a bipartisan program (Quinn, 2018). According to Quinn (2018), due to the complications mentioned in the former, panic ultimately set in and led states- which were already expecting to run out of funding by the end of the month, to begin preparing to end coverage for children and pregnant woman, and to overall freeze …show more content…
So, what caused there to be a delay in funding for the first time in history, one may ask? Ultimately, congress’ failure to unite- despite the republican governors urge to solve the issue, or the fact that the Congressional Budget Office showed authentication would actually save the federal government money due to the new changing tax laws and thus the predicted decrease in enrollment in the coming years- was based on confusion and alleged technical issues, reports Quinn (2018). Undoubtedly, from all this commotion not only did patients get affected by their increasing uncertainty leading them to over utilize services due to the belief that they will soon be gone, but also other education and state officials to comment that “this dysfunction is no way to run the government” and that “the best outcome is for families to just know it’s there because the stress is so unnecessary and just feeds into distrust of the entire government”
1. After days into the government shutdown in January of 2018, congress at last agreed on a deal to reopen and fund the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)- which expired more than 100 days prior (Quinn, 2018). CHIP currently serves more than 9 million low-income children in addition to pregnant women who do not have employer-based insurance, but also who do not qualify for Medicaid (Quinn, 2018). CHIP is funded by the federal government (80%)- but also by the states as well; overall, this was the first time in national history that there was a remarkable delay in funding in what has previously been a bipartisan program (Quinn, 2018). According to Quinn (2018), due to the complications mentioned in the former, panic ultimately set in and led states- which were already expecting to run out of funding by the end of the month, to begin preparing to end coverage for children and pregnant woman, and to overall freeze …show more content…
So, what caused there to be a delay in funding for the first time in history, one may ask? Ultimately, congress’ failure to unite- despite the republican governors urge to solve the issue, or the fact that the Congressional Budget Office showed authentication would actually save the federal government money due to the new changing tax laws and thus the predicted decrease in enrollment in the coming years- was based on confusion and alleged technical issues, reports Quinn (2018). Undoubtedly, from all this commotion not only did patients get affected by their increasing uncertainty leading them to over utilize services due to the belief that they will soon be gone, but also other education and state officials to comment that “this dysfunction is no way to run the government” and that “the best outcome is for families to just know it’s there because the stress is so unnecessary and just feeds into distrust of the entire government”