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Chris Van Hollen: “The reason the cost of providing services to CHIP went down is because those children, if they were denied that…”

On the recordJanuary 23, 2018
The reason the cost of providing services to CHIP went down is because those children, if they were denied that alternative through the Children's Health Insurance Program, would have gone into the Affordable Care Act exchanges.
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Chris Van Hollen
Democratic · Maryland

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Van Hollen explains the impact of the individual mandate removal on CHIP and ACA costs.

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