Dawn Horner

 By Dawn Horner and Beth Morrow | January 2012

This roadmap lays out the four design features (and practical recommendations for action within each) necessary to enroll almost 4 million Californians newly eligible for subsidized health coverage under health reform, in addition to assisting the over 8 million already receiving such coverage. While written with a specific focus on California, the information and recommendations in the report will be relevant to decisionmakers in any state.

Download the Executive Summary
Download the Full Report 

By Beth Morrow with Dawn Horner | May 2007

By Dawn Horner and Dania Wasongarz

August 2006

By Dawn Horner | July 2006

By Beth Morrow with Dawn Horner

May 2006

By Dawn Horner and Beth Morrow | May 2006

By Dawn Horner with Beth Morrow and Wendy Lazarus
September 2004

This report by The Children's Partnership documents the results from California’s Express Lane initiative that has been piloted in 72 schools.

Download the report (PDF, 936 KB).

By Dawn Horner | October 2003

By Wendy Jacobson, Kristen Testa, and Dawn Horner | May 2003

By Dawn Horner, Wendy Lazarus and Beth Morrow
Spring 2003

This article published in The Future  of Children journal "Health Insurance for Children" (volume 13, no. 1) describes the potential of Express Lane Eligibility and provides examples of how it can be implemented.

Download the article. (PDF, 81KB)

By Kristen Testa, Larissa Mohamadi, Dawn Horner, Wendy Lazarus, Jayleen Richards, and Len Finocchio
January 2003

This report by The Children's Partnership and Children Now, as part of the 100% Campaign, offers promising strategies, including renewal through other public programs, for keeping California's low-income children covered by Medicaid/SCHIP (Medi-Cal and Healthy Families in California).

Download the report (PDF, 1 MB).

By Dawn Horner and Holly Kenny
December 2002

This eight-page Issue Brief reports on the estimates and characteristics of the California children who stand to benefit from Express Lane Eligibility. 

Download the brief (PDF, 488 KB).

By Dawn Horner and Wendy Lazarus
March 2001

A report developed by The Children's Partnership as part of the 100% Campaign, a coordinated effort with Children Now and the Children's Defense Fund. It provides recommendations for creating a unified health insurance program for California's children and their parents.

Download the report (PDF, 150 KB).

By Dawn Horner, Beth Morrow, Wendy Lazarus, and Andy Schneider | November 2000

By Roxana Barillas and Dawn Horner
July 2000

This publication by The Children’s Partnership and California WIC Association examines ways to make the WIC and the Medicaid/SCHIP (Medi-Cal/Healthy Families) connection work more effectively to increase the number of insured WIC-enrolled children in California.

Download the publication (PDF, 122 KB).

By Dawn Horner, Wendy Lazarus, and Beth Morrow
December 1999

This strategy brief provides a general overview of the issue of Express Lane Eligibility. It examines how states can utilize programs such as food stamps to help find and enroll the roughly 7 million uninsured American children eligible for health insurance.

Download the brief (PDF, 93 KB).

By Dawn Horner, Wendy Lazarus, Marsha McCready, and Beth Morrow
September 1998

A report developed by The Children's Partnership under the auspices of the 100% Campaign, a coordinated effort with Children Now and the Children's Defense Fund. It presents the public and private sector opportunities, barriers and best strategies for expanding coverage to all of California's uninsured children.

Download the report (PDF, 344 KB).