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US: Congress lets Children’s Health Insurance Program expire
Washington Post – October 01, 2017
Congress has allowed the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which provided low-cost health insurance to 9 million children, to expire. If action is not taken soon to restore the funding, the effects will become obvious in schools across the country, with many of the children in the program unable to see a doctor for routine checkups, immunizations, visits when sick and other services.
http://www.nola.com/health/index.ssf/2017/10/children_health_insurance_expi.html