Repug Congress Strikes Again - Dozens Of Crucial Health Initiatives Await Reauthorization.....

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In addition to its failure to reauthorize the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) before it expired, Congress also let dozens of other federal health initiatives expire at the end of September. The initiatives, while typically not controversial, are smaller initiatives that are usually lumped into a larger bill. In the past, they were reauthorized when Congress updated or suspended the physician fee schedule but when the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate was repealed in 2015, the initiatives lost their legislative home.

These health programs work. But in the rancor of Congress, they’ve been left in the lurch.

Link:
https://www.statnews.com/2017/10/19/health-programs-congress-extenders/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Republicans want people to die. When will we get this thru our thick skulls?