title: In The Affordable Care Act's Shadow: The Fate Of The Children's Health Insurance Program.
abstract: The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is a success story. CHIP has contributed greatly to ensuring affordable insurance and access to medical services for millions of children. The 2015 two-year extension of CHIP funding appeared to confirm its longstanding status as a bipartisan program. Yet that appearance obscures important changes in CHIP politics. In recent years, there have been calls to end the program, and its bipartisan coalition has frayed. In this article we analyze CHIP's funding extension, explore its shifting political environment, and discuss the implications for the program's future.
authors.affiliation: Jonathan Oberlander (oberland@med.unc.edu) is a professor in and chair of the Department of Social Medicine in the School of Medicine and a professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, both at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Oberlander
authors.affiliation: David K. Jones is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management in the School of Public Health, Boston University, in Massachusetts.
authors.forename: David K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.affiliation: Steven Spivack is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Spivack
authors.affiliation: Phillip M. Singer is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the School of Public Health, University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor.
authors.forename: Phillip M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Singer
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000191:economics; D065326:Children's Health Insurance Program / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D019458:Insurance Coverage / Q000191:economics*; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000191:economics*; D058991:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011057:Politics; D014481:United States
keywords: Affordable Care Act; Children’s Health; Children’s Health Insurance Program; Health Reform