CHIP isn’t the only health program Congress has failed to fund

It’s been 110 days since Congress failed to refinance the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that insures nine million kids nationwide. And the same is true for community health centers, which provide health care services to 27 million patients nationwide.

As members of Congress continue to wrangle over legislative details ahead of the potential government shutdown, federally-qualified health clinics, CHIP kids, and Dreamers are all caught in the middle; although...