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Jay Rockefeller: If funding is not continued for CHIP, it is going to be a nightmare.

On the recordSeptember 15, 2014
If funding is not continued for CHIP, it is going to be a nightmare.
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Jay Rockefeller
Democratic · West Virginia

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Rockefeller warns of severe consequences if CHIP funding is not maintained.

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Just as a follow-up to the question of funding which was addressed, CBO actually has come out with an estimate on what all of this would cost. It is not $20 billion; it is in the area of zero up to $10 billion over that period of 4 years.

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one of the things that happened with the CBO scoring was that yes, there was a cost because you were keeping CHIP operating, but there was a savings because the children were not transferring into the Affordable Care Act, for example.

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