The stopgap measure “simply calls on the Health and Human Services Department to re-allocate any remaining funds to the most desperate states.” The American Academy of Pediatrics issued a statement saying, “The short-term funding agreement to fund the government until Dec. 22 only includes a patchwork measure to provide funding to a handful of states.” The American Academy of Pediatrics added that the following states may run out of funding by the end of the year: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Idaho, Mississippi, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Utah. NBC News quotes Dr. Lanre Falusi, a Washington, DC area pediatrician and spokeswoman for the American Academy of Pediatrics, who said, “There’s a huge domino effect here. Playing politics and kicking the can down the road…will surely have long term health adverse outcomes for these kids.”

CNBC (12/8, Mangan) reported that “HHS so far has not said what states will get any such re-allocated money or how much is available.” CNBC also mentions the list of states from the American Academy of Pediatrics that “are on the verge of running out of their existing CHIP funds by the end of the year.”