Report: GOPers May Hold Children's Health Insurance Hostage For Tax Cuts
Source: Talking Points Memo
By ALICE OLLSTEIN Published AUGUST 30, 2017 12:43 PM
Congress returns next week to a nightmarishly short calendar during which they must pass a host of bills to keep the government running, including the reauthorization of the Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP) which provides health coverage to millions of children in low-income families and expires on Sept. 30.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Republicans may attempt to use the CHIP deadline as a vehicle to revive their effort to chip away at the Affordable Care Act, and could try to attach amendments to the bill to reauthorize its funding.
Congressional sources told the Wall Street Journal that Republicans are in particular looking at linking a repeal of Obamacares medical device tax to CHIP. Other lawmakers are considering amendments that would stabilize Obamacares marketplaces, fearing that a standalone bill to do so would either not pass Congress or would draw a presidential veto.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, The National Association of Medicaid Directors and several other groups have voiced concerns about attempts to play politics with the CHIP funding, warning that any attempt to attach a controversial poison pill provision to the must-pass bill would put it in jeopardy.
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Stargazer99
(2,585 posts)Chemisse
(30,811 posts)I don't think the GOP wants to be blamed for children being left without health care.
gopiscrap
(23,760 posts)and most of their children are grown
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)big safety net program enacted over the past 100 years. That IS the plan. Almost no Republican voters support it, but they're still mostly in denial about what the big powers pulling their strings are up to.
Note the very substantial rebellion over the ACA, "don't mess with my Social Security," etcetera. Their propaganda will claim we're killing sick children, but the Republicans control the government and all but the most crazy 20% will know they own this.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)They should be on every talk show, all with coordinating talking points, about Republicans holding childrens lives hostage. Get fucking inflammatory! Get outrageous! Get the GOP back on their heels.
But no, they will do as they always do...pay the ransom, and capitulate on the tax cuts instead of taking the chance that the public will stand with them.