Children Shouldn't be Bargaining 'CHIPS'

The proposed $7 billion dollar cut to the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is bound to hurt young people. The CHIP program provides health care to kids from low-income families. It is also a program that both sides of the aisle have long supported.

So I'll be as succinct as possible. From an education standpoint - since this is the work of our charity - ANY cuts to the program not only are detrimental to the health of a young child, such cuts are bound to play out in school. A child not receiving proper medical care is a child who will almost certainly be faced with challenges in the classroom.

And it doesn't have to be this way.

Dick