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What if CHIP Funds Run Out? Here’s What 6 Families Would Do

Elizabeth Yasmin Serrano with her sons Jeremy, 7, left, and Christopher, 10, at the Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas in Austin, Texas, Jan. 7, 2018. With Congress yet to agree on a long-term plan to pay for the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program, better known as CHIP, parents have started thinking about contingency plans. Serrano, 28, is a bank teller and CHIP covers her sons. (Ilana Panich-Linsman/The New York Times)