Help Save Healthcare for Children: Action Needed

It's been more than 100 days since Congress allowed the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP, known as Healthy Families in California) to lapse. Even in this Congress this inaction stands out as one of the cruelest failures imaginable.

9,000,000 low-income children and pregnant women will permanently lose comprehensive and affordable health care coverage if Congress doesn't act. We must hold their feet to the fire as passionately and effectively as we defended Obamacare last year.

Dozens of the nation's leading health care and children's advocacy groups have organized a day of action to #SaveCHIP. Here's how you can help:

• Use this fact sheet and this toolkit to call your representatives and senators at (877) 233-9025 and request they fund CHIP for five years as part of the Jan. 1‌9 vote to fund the federal government;
• Help get the word out on social media -- use #SaveCHIP to educate your friends and family about why this is so important to millions of Californians;
• Tell your coworkers, neighbors, and friends to join you! The more people speak out about the importance of CHIP on the same day at the same time, the greater the impact on Congress.

Republicans just gave trillions of dollars to the ultrarich in tax cuts. There is simply no excuse for cutting off this life-saving and life-changing healthcare for children and pregnant women.