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Download TCP's submitted comments to CMS on the proposed Online and Paper Model Applications, CMS-10440.
Download TCP's submitted comments to the California Health Benefit Exchange on Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP), regarding employee/employer plan choice and navigators.
Download the submitted comments CMS-9989-F
Download submitted comments on CMS-2349-F
Download the submitted comments on CMS-0044.
Download the submitted comments on CMS-0044-P.
Download the submitted comments to HIT Policy Committee, CMS-0033-P
The Children's Partnership supports SB 126 (Steinberg) which will extend the provisions of California’s Autism Insurance Mandate Law (SB 946) for an additional five years until July 1, 2019.
Download the letter of support here.
The Children's Partnership joins over 360 organizations on a signed a letter to the President and Members of Congress in support of access to health care and nutrition assistance for all Americans, including immigrant families.
Download the letter here.
The Children's Partnership signed-on with other child advocates to support the elimination of a waiting period currently under the Proposed Rule pertaining to Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance Programs, and Exchanges, CMS-2234-P.
Download the full letter here.
The Children's Partnership joined the Children's Defense Fund and other child advocacy organizations on a letter to HHS on a new health care law requirement that former foster care youth be covered by Medicaid to the age of 26.
Download the letter here.
The Children's Partnership signed-on with Community Catalyst as one of 193 groups from thirty-four states and Washington, DC urging the Democratic Congressional Leadership to protect Medicaid in the current budget debate to avert the fiscal cliff.
Download the full letter here.
The Children's Partnership joined the California School Health Centers Association, the National Assembly on School-Based Health Care, and other children’s advocates in support for a $50 million appropriation, in the President’s FY 2014 budget, dedicated exclusively to school-based health center (SBHC) operations.
Download the letter to Secretary Sebelius here.
The Children's Partnership signed-on with NHeLP and other California child advocate organizations to voice comments and concerns about California's Section 1115 Waiver Amendment Request regarding the Children's Health Insurance Program Transition to Medicaid Program.
Download the letter here .
The Children's Partnership joined national and state children's advocates supporting Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA-eligible individuals having access coverage in the Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) as well as through the Exchanges.
Download the support letter sent on October 29, 2012.
The Children's Partnership submitted a letter to Governor Brown, urging his signature of SB 970 (de Leon). SB 970 would integrate the process of applying for health coverage with public programs such as CalFresh and CalWORKS.
The Children's Partnership joined a broad coalition of national advocates opposing a vote by the House Energy and Commerce Committee to cut $400 million from CHIPRA Performance Bonuses funding.
Download the letter sent to all House health staff May 7, 2012
The Children's Partnership joined this letter of support by the First Focus Campaign for Children on their work with Representative Danny Davis (IL) in the House and Senator Menendez (NJ) in the Senate on the Children’s Budget Act – H.R. 1602 and S. 1396. The legislation would call for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to annually produce a full and deliberate accounting of all the money the federal government spends on and for children.
Download the letter sent on April 16, 2012.
Kristen Golden Testa presented implications and benefits of ACA for California’s children with special needs.
Download the Power Point presentation here.
Kristen Golden Testa, Health Director
Health Action 2012 Families USA, Washington DC
January 19, 2012
Download the Power Point
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The Children's Partnership has developed a guide to maximize HIT's ability to engage child and parent consumers in their own health by improving access to and use of their electronic health information. When designed with children and parents in mind, HIT can connect, inform, empower, and protect -- four guide posts to effective engagement of this critical consumer segment.
This visual companion piece to Easy, Efficient, Real-Time (EER): A Framework for a First-Class Health Insurance Enrollment Experience in California walks the viewer through an individual's ideal enrollment experience. 
This Framework lays out, step by step, how eligibility, enrollment, and retention should work for consumers so that California can meet the expectations of the Affordable Care Act. While developed for California, this Framework can be used in any state to help stakeholders focus on the elements that matter most for consumers. It is designed to be a practical resource for decision-makers as they work to achieve our shared goal: a simple, efficient door into health care in California that works well for its consumers.
The success of the Affordable Care Act in achieving near-universal health coverage will depend on the effectiveness of the enrollment and renewal processes that states put in place. The law establishes the expectation that systems should enroll individuals with the minimum possible burden and handle transitions seamlessly.