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Congress puts aid to consumers in doubt

Health insurance assistance at risk

By Sarah Kliff

 |  Washington Post  

  January 08, 2012

It was a first for Texas: a state office devoted to consumers struggling to find affordable health insurance coverage. With funds from the federal health reform law, the Texas Consumer Health Assistance Program was launched last January. But less than a year after it opened, the Texas Consumer Health Assistance Program is preparing to shut down, a victim of Congress’s inability to agree on a federal budget for next year.

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