When Linda Nablo began talking in September about the potential end of federal funding for children's insurance, the potential health and well-being of 65,000 children was at stake.
Since then, about 3,000 additional children have been enrolled in the state's FAMIS program. As of Dec. 1, the official number was 68,495 children whose insurance coverage was tied to a 20-year-old federal program known as CHIP, or the Children's Health Insurance Program.
Tuesday, Virginia mailed letters to all those families, warning them that their children's coverage might end when the state's funds dry up on Jan. 31 because Congress has continuously failed to reauthorize CHIP.
