Facebook Live: What’s Happening With The Children’s Health Insurance Program?

KHN chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner and Bruce Lesley, a Capitol Hill veteran who heads First Focus, a bipartisan children’s health advocacy group, break down the current state of play on CHIP reauthorization and other congressional issues.

For more in-depth conversations with KHN reporters, check out our Facebook video archive.

KHN’s coverage of children’s health care issues is supported in part by a grant from The Heising-Simons Foundation.

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<h1>Facebook Live: What’s Happening With The Children’s Health Insurance Program?</h1>
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<p>KHN chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner and Bruce Lesley, a Capitol Hill veteran who heads First Focus, a bipartisan children’s health advocacy group, break down the current state of play on CHIP reauthorization and other congressional issues.</p><p>For more in-depth conversations with KHN reporters, check out our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/KaiserHealthNews/videos/">Facebook video archive</a>.</p><p><em>KHN’s coverage of children’s health care issues is supported in part by a grant from <a href="https://www.hsfoundation.org/">The Heising-Simons Foundation</a>.</em></p><ul><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/facebook-live-whats-happening-with-the-childrens-health-insurance-program/?share=x">				Share on X (Opens in new window)				X			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/facebook-live-whats-happening-with-the-childrens-health-insurance-program/?share=facebook">				Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)				Facebook			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/facebook-live-whats-happening-with-the-childrens-health-insurance-program/?share=linkedin">				Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)				LinkedIn			</a></li><li><a href="mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Facebook%20Live%3A%20What%E2%80%99s%20Happening%20With%20The%20Children%E2%80%99s%20Health%20Insurance%20Program%3F&body=https%3A%2F%2Fkffhealthnews.org%2FNzcwOTM5&share=email">				Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)				Email			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/facebook-live-whats-happening-with-the-childrens-health-insurance-program/#print?share=print">				Print (Opens in new window)				Print			</a></li><li>				<a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/facebook-live-whats-happening-with-the-childrens-health-insurance-program/view/republish/">					Republish This Story				</a>			</li></ul><em><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/about-us">KFF Health News</a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href="https://www.kff.org/about-us">KFF</a>.</em><p><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-briefing/">Subscribe</a> to KFF Health News' free Morning Briefing.</p><p>This <a target="_blank" href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/facebook-live-whats-happening-with-the-childrens-health-insurance-program/">article</a> first appeared on <a target="_blank" href="https://kffhealthnews.org">KFF Health News</a> and is republished here under a <a target="_blank" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.<img src="https://kffhealthnews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/kffhealthnews-icon.png?w=150" style="width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;"></p>
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