The funding set to expire this weekend affects the Children’s Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP, which covers 176,000 children in Pennsylvania; a program that provides 70 percent of the federal funding for Federally Qualified Health Centers that care for more than 800,000 low-income Pennsylvanians; the National Health Service Corps; and the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting program.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: CHIP, other federal safety net programs went over a cliff this weekend
