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Time to stop using 9 million children as a bargaining CHIP

  • Written by Simon Haeder, Assistant Professor of Political Science, West Virginia University
Funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) has run out.stockcreations/shutterstock.com

Since the inauguration of President Trump, health care has been front and center in American politics. Yet attention has almost exclusively focused on the Affordable Care Act and congressional Republicans’ slew of attempts to repeal...

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