Clinton: Congress playing 'roulette' with children's health funding

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY JESSIE HELLMANN - 11/10/17 10:46 AM EST

Hillary Clinton says Congress is playing "roulette" over extending funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

"This is the first time where we're really playing roulette with these kids and their families," Clinton said Thursday at a health care symposium in Pennsylvania.

“Because states are going to start shutting down these programs because they don’t have a funding stream.”

As first lady was a champion of CHIP when it first made its way through Congress during former President Bill Clinton’s first term in office. Funding for the program, which covers 9 million children, technically expired at the end of September, but the first states aren't expected to run out of funding by the end of the year.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/359783-clinton-congress-playing-roulette-with-childrens-health-insurance-program

[Wwcd]

1. What a perfect analogy.

"Congress playing 'roulette' with children's health funding"

[Pope George Ringo II]

2. Especially when you consider who owns the party running Congress

There's a special term for that kind of roulette, if memory serves.

[Wwcd]

4. Yup. Creepy in a chilling sorta way isn't it.

[iluvtennis]

3. And it is SHAMEFUL that the party of "family values" defunds medical programs for kids and seniors.

[Wwcd]

5. Ugh! These guys are so f'd.