Sen. Sherrod Brown is concerned about the children in Medina County and Lorain County in Ohio losing out on health insurance due to lack of funds.

According to Brown as the funding for the CHIP program expires in September he hopes to find bipartisan support for continuing the coverage until 2019. “If Congress doesn’t act, Ohio stands to lose up to $146 million in federal funds in 2016 alone,” Brown said. “It’s always been bipartisan and it needs to continue to be.”
He said, as he had spoken to Finance Committee Chair Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, about securing funding to continue the CHIP program, he would eventually like to see families covered under private insurance through the Affordable Care Act. CHIP he felt should be continued till the private exchanges were still new and until the government health care roll out was complete.
“We know Congress is working to undermine the effectiveness of the ACA,” Brown said. He said he hopes by 2019, Americans will have better health-care choices under the Affordable Care Act and the CHIP program no longer may be necessary.
Brown said Republicans need to offer a better explanation of why they want to repeal the law and what they would replace it with.
“I think Republicans … who continue to undermine this law need to explain to 700,000 Ohioans why they want to take away their insurance,” he said.
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Source-Medindia