House GOP voted to fund CHIP by stabbing at Medicare - raising premiums, cutting pay grace period

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The House passed legislation on Friday to reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program and funding for Community Health Centers over objections from most Democrats on how the programs will be funded.

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The bill now advances to the Senate, which has yet to take up its own version that passed out of committee last month. Democrats objected to Republicans paying for the traditionally bipartisan program through raising premiums for wealthy Medicare seniors, raiding an Obamacare prevention fund and narrowing a grace period for Obamacare customers to pay premiums.

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CHIP expired on Sept. 30 but most states won’t run out of funds until early 2018. Some states could run out by the end of this month, a federal advisory panel warned Congress last month.

During floor debate, Democrats and Republicans argued over the bill's offsets. The CHIP and Community Health Centers programs typically have bipartisan support.

Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., accused Republicans of harming one healthcare program to pay for another, and Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., charged Republicans with using the CHIP bill as a way to harm Obamacare, after the Senate rejected a GOP bill to overhaul the law.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/house-passes-child-insurance-bill-sends-it-to-the-senate/article/2639541

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Said this before,

the increase in Social Security payments would be wiped out by the Rethugs increasing the Premiums on Medicare. Usual bowel movement of the Republicans.