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Kids' Advocates Still Fighting to Save Healthy Families Program

KQED

Wendy Lazarus, co-president of The Children's Partnership, wants lawmakers to stick with their original plan, which would put 200,000 Healthy Families children into Medi-Cal as a test run.

"We believe that by putting added pressure on a very fragile Medi-Cal system right now,” says Lazarus, “that the plan will endanger access to care for as many as 4.5 million kids - so the Healthy Families kids and the children now in Medi-Cal.”

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Terms:California, California Coverage, CHIP/Healthy Families, Press Clips, Wendy Lazarus

Last Ditch Effort to Block Plan to Dissolve Healthy Families

Mercury News

"Medi-Cal already faces serious challenges in providing access for 3.5 million kids served by it today, and it's straining to serve them well," said Wendy Lazarus, founder and co-president of The Children's Partnership, which outlined demands in a letter co-signed by 64 groups. "But by putting added pressure on a very fragile Medi-Cal system now, the plan will endanger access to care for as many as 4.5 million kids."

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Terms:California, California Coverage, CHIP/Healthy Families, Press Clips, Wendy Lazarus

Wendy Lazarus Calls Budget Deal on Healthy Families Program Reckless and Shortsighted

Santa Monica, CA, June 21, 2012 -- "The Governor and Legislative leaders have struck a short-sighted deal that unnecessarily puts the health of California children at risk," said Wendy Lazarus. "While we understand that hard budget choices had to be made, those choices should not fall on the backs of our children and their ability to get the care they need to stay healthy and succeed in life." Ms. Lazarus joins a broad coalition of advocates who supported an alternative to today's state budget deal. See this Capitol Weekly piece for The Children's Partnership full position on this issue.

Terms:California, California Coverage, Press Release, Wendy Lazarus

VirtuallyGood4Kids™

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Terms:Internet and 21st Century Skills, Presentations, Technology, Wendy Lazarus

It's Time to Protect Healthy Families

Calitics

Wendy Lazarus, Founder and Co-President, on a common-sense, alternative approach to the Healthy Families shift to Medi-Cal.

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Terms:Blog, California, California Coverage, CHIP/Healthy Families, Press Clips, Wendy Lazarus

Wendy Lazarus on Governor's Elimination of Healthy Families

Capitol Weekly

Fighting Brown's plan to eliminate Healthy Families

Terms:Blog, Health , Press Clips, Wendy Lazarus

Wendy Lazarus Mercury News Piece on Expanding Dental Access for California's Kids

Mercury News

New strategies needed to provide dental care to children

Terms:California, Press Clips, Wendy Lazarus

Wendy Lazarus on Positive Effects of Health Reform for California's Children at Two-Year Anniversary

89.3 KPCC

Health reform anniversary: How has it helped California citizens?

Terms:California, Health , Health Care/Reform, Wendy Lazarus

The Affordable Care Act Counts Big for California's Children

Insure the Uninsured Project

Wendy Lazarus guest blogs on the ACA two-year anniversary.

Terms:Blog, Health , Health Care/Reform, Wendy Lazarus

The Children's Partnership Joins NHeLP Amicus Brief Filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in Support of New Health Law's Medicaid Provisions

The Children's Partnership press release on joining a "friend of the court" (amicus) brief filed by the National Health Law Program with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the Medicaid expansion provisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Supreme Court agreed to hear oral arguments in late March 2012 about the constitutionality of the ACA's Medicaid expansion, along with other legal challenges.

Terms:Health , Press Release, Wendy Lazarus

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