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Millions of families that rely on the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for their child's coverage are breathing a sigh of relief. Yesterday, Congress finally passed a controversial short-term funding bill to end the government shutdown that includes a six-year extension of CHIP.The CHIP funding extension maintains the current…

As several state and federal bills that seek to gut or reverse Roe v. Wade could make their way to the Supreme Court, the Trump administration is taking other aggressive and legally suspect actions to curtail the constitutional right to have an abortion. Some are straight forward, while some…

In an Oct. 12 Executive Order, the Trump White House ordered its Secretary of Labor to consider allowing more employers to form association health plans. In compliance with that order, the Department of Labor on Jan. 5 issued a new proposed rule aimed at encouraging the formation of more…

Why do something simply when you can spend more to get less? That appears to be exactly what Wisconsin has done when it chose its own path to expand Medicaid to some low-income adults. A new report from the non-profit Kids Forward underscores the fiscal illogic of Wisconsin’s approach.…

According to a recent poll, nearly one third of Americans believe that President Trump has already repealed the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Last month, Trump boasted that the Republican tax legislation “essentially repealed Obamacare” by eliminating the requirement that all individuals have health insurance.That claim is not quite true.The…