NCAI Urges Senate Leadership to Reauthorize CHIP and SDPI
On December 11th, 2017,
NCAI sent the attached letters to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) urging them to promptly
reauthorize the Children's Health Insurance Program
(CHIP) and the Special Diabetes Program for
Indians (SDPI).
Both programs were reauthorized until
September 30th, 2017 by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization
Act (MACRA, Public Law 114-10). While CHIP is currently expired, SDPI was
extended until December 31st, 2017 through the Disaster Tax Relief
and Airport and Airway Extension Act. CHIP and SDPI have had positive impacts
in Indian Country and failure to reauthorize these programs jeopardizes the
great strides that have been made in ensuring American Indian and Alaska Native
children are insured and decreasing the rate of diabetes and diabetes-related
complications in Indian Country.
Read the CHIP Letter>
http://files.constantcontact.com/c2394f27001/9abc19c4-86e0-4a08-b7df-32da072a56f8.pdf
Read the SDPI Letter:
http://files.constantcontact.com/c2394f27001/d88ef44c-8cdb-45bf-92a1-892a9cc73df8.pdf
NCAI.org
Piqua Shawnee
Piquashawnee.com
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