The Washington Independent, By Mark Lillis

The health reform blueprint unveiled by President Obama earlier this week is being described everywhere as an amalgamation of the Senate and House bills. When it comes to children’s coverage, though, that’s not quite the case.

While the House has proposed to scrap the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program in 2014, and the Senate offered two addition years of CHIP funding (through 2015), the White House goes a step further, proposing a funded CHIP extension through 2016.

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