Children´s health program threatened by partisan war in Washington
(WorldNews Health)

Dionne Kotey with her fiancé and their two daughters. Washington - A program that provides health care to about 17,000 Connecticut children and teenagers has become a victim of Washington´s bitter partisan war, and the state is expected to tell thousands of families that coverage for those children may end at the end of January. Congressional authorization for the Children´s Health Insurance Program, known as CHIP, ended on Sept. 30. But Connecticut, and most other states, have been able to keep the program, known as HUSKY B in Connecticut, going by using unspent funds from the past two years. Those funds are projected to run out on Jan. 31 unless Congress acts, and right now lawmakers are...