Jay Rockefeller: “The second option--which I will be proposing in forthcoming legislation--is to completely overhaul the inter-agency…”

It is not right to shift the added financial burdens onto working families when a cost-effective solution for maintaining the coverage they already have exists.

Without congressional action, I say again, CHIP will run out of funding next fall, placing at risk the well-being of hundreds of thousands of children and pregnant women.

It is a really popular program.

We simply cannot afford to take this major step backwards and jeopardize the future of generations by allowing CHIP to expire.