Act Now to #SaveCHIP

From Families USA (http://www.familiesusa.org):

This week marks 100 days since Congress failed to extend full funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), the successful, bipartisan program that provides 9 million U.S. children with comprehensive and affordable health care coverage.

Congress’s failure to act has created an emergency with real consequences for children, families, and pregnant women, and for the states, which operate CHIP programs. In fact, states are already notifying families that may not have a source of health coverage for their children, should Congress fail to enact a long-term extension of CHIP funding. Read our blog for more

Join Action to #SaveCHIP. Here’s how you and your network can support this effort:

Call your members of Congress: Use and share this toolkit from the American Academy of Pediatrics, and call your lawmakers at (877)-233-9025, and tell them to immediately fund CHIP for five years. Congress votes on January 19th to fund the federal government; long-term CHIP funding must be included when they do.

The more advocates speak out about the importance of CHIP on the same day at the same time, the more members of Congress will listen. What families and states need is certainty, and what they’ve gotten instead from congressional inaction is uncertainty.

Please join us in raising your voice to #SaveCHIP! Together we can make a difference for children, families, and pregnant women across the country.