CHIP Funding Expires Sep 30. Here's how to help.

Kansas families won this week with the defeat of Graham-Cassidy, but kids are still at risk. Federal funding for the Children's Health Insurance Plan runs out on September 30. If Congress doesn’t renew funding for the program, Kansas children will lose health coverage and state budgets will face shortfalls. #KeepKidsCovered #ExtendCHIP #CHIPworks

Call your federal representatives and ask them to renew funding for CHIP. Find your members of congress here by entering your full adress: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members  

For more information about CHIP and how it helps children, see our news post from September 11.

Help Us Save the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) this September 19!

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Time is running out for Congress to pass legislation that extends funding for CHIP, which expires on September 30, 2017. Urge your Representative and Senators to voice strong support for a clean 5-year extension of CHIP funding and to tell congressional leadership to hold a vote on funding extension before September 30.  

KHSA is asking everyone to join with child-advocacy groups to create a Twitter storm on September 19 from 1:00 - 2:00 PM.  For sample tweets, images (good for Twitter or Facebook), and Twitter handles for Kansas senators and representatives, check out this social media kit.
 

For more information on how CHIP protects children in working families, see this fact-filled blog by Pediatrician David Rubin.  http://policylab.chop.edu/blog/preserving-CHIP