Susan Jaffe | Washington Correspondent for The Lancet | 22nd January 2018
On the first anniversary of Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th 
president of the United States on January 20, 2018, the federal government ground to a shutdown and hundreds of thousands of women and their supporters rallied against the new president in dozens of cities across the country. [Continued here.]
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Susan Jaffe | Washington Correspondent for The Lancet | 29th December 2017
Despite wide bipartisan support for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Congress agreed last week to continue coverage for 8.9 million children only through the end of M
arch. But several of the program’s state directors say the $2.85 billion rescue plan won’t even last that long, and federal health officials are not offering much reassurance. [Continued here.] Temporary CHIP 122917…
Volume 390, Number 10114 
WORLD REPORT Without adequate federal funding, CHIP is on the verge of collapse in several states. Susan Jaffe, The Lancet’s Washington correspondent, reports.
“Whoever would have thought that health care for children—that has support on both sides of the aisle—would be in this situation?” asked Deborah Oswalt, executive director of the Virginia Health Care Foundation. [full story here]
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