The looming loss of Children’s Health Insurance Program coverage has one local mother worried.

Two months has passed since the last funding authorization ran out, and the Washington Post reports that Texas has asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for $90 million in leftover funds to delay shutting down the state’s program.

A Texas Health and Human Services spokeswoman told the Post the state is confident it will get the extra money, which keep CHIP running through February.

But that’s small comfort to Mary Hughes, a medical assistant and a mother of four children.

She has a 12-year old, and 8-year-old, and a set of twins, 7, who are enrolled in CHIP, which provides low-cost health coverage to children in families that make too much to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough to afford private insurance.

Experts said the fallout over the lack of coverage for those who need it will bleed into others areas of the family budget and diminish quality of life.

"I mean that this is really going to affect us financially and it's going to hurt us because then we can't do the things that we need to do for our children. If they play sports, they're going to have to stop because then I don't have insurance if they get hurt,” Hughes said.

She's also worried about how to pay for wellness exams if her children get sick, lab tests and medication out of pocket.

Dr. Roland Goertz at Waco’s Family Health Center said the lack of preventative care could lead to fewer healthy children in the community.

Goertz said his clinic is the safety net for the community.

It primarily sees low income patients and was set up to give people access to care in areas that greatly need it.

As of Oct. 1, Congress had cut 70 percent out of one grant that supports the center and has yet to appropriate funds to continue the grant.

Goertz said the center see about 16,000 uninsured patients.

"We would lose about $2.4 million so if you add that with what CHIP could do to the revenue side, you have a pretty scary equation for us also."

Medical experts said they can see the funding loss will affect the greater community in terms of fewer healthy children who grow up to become adults with serious health problems.