-_ Health a: —— tf Healthcare Reauthorization Priorities. The Children’s Chronic Care. In late October, Senate Finance Committee Health Insurance Plan (CHIP) will expire and needs to be Chairman Hatch and Ranking Member Wyden along with reauthorized in 2017. CHIP is a federal and state Senators Johnny lIsakson (R-GA) and Mark Warner (D-VA), partnership program which provides health coverage to co-chairs of the Finance Committee Chronic Care Working an estimated 8.9 million low-income children. In 2015, Group, released a discussion draft with proposals to President Obama signed the Medicare Access and CHIP improve health outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries living Reauthorization Act which extended CHIP for an with chronic conditions. Potential Senate legislative additional two years; without an extension of the program action on the discussion draft is possible in the lame duck in 2017 the program will exhaust its funding and states session, but it is also possible the bill will be taken up in will be required to continue the children’s coverage the next Congress. through Medicaid until 2019, due to the ACA’s maintenance of effort (MOE) provision unless the ACA is repealed. The reauthorization process will create an opportunity to consider additional policy changes including changes to the CHIP and Medicaid programs. The ACA also created a funding stream for community health centers. In 2015, a bipartisan vote in Congress extended the Community Health Center Fund by an additional two years (FY 2016 and FY 2017). It is likely that lawmakers will push to extend funding of community health centers into future years beyond 2017. EY 18 | Election 2016 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022390