Texas eager to avoid telling nearly a half-million kids, right before Christmas, that they’ve lost health coverage

AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott’s administration is trying to avoid mailing health insurance cancellation notices to nearly half a million children three days before Christmas.

Unless it can get $90 million more in federal funding, though, Texas will end its Children’s Health Insurance Program on Jan. 31. It would send notices about the program’s termination to affected families on Dec. 22. More than 400,000 children of the working poor currently are covered under CHIP, as the state-federal program is known.

Source: Texas eager to avoid telling nearly a half-million kids — right before Christmas — that they’ve lost health coverage / Dallas News