Express Lane / ELE

By Dawn Horner | October 2003

From The Children's Partnership
August 2003

This brochure, available in both English and Spanish, explains how California's parents can use the school lunch application to sign their children up for health coverage.

Download the brochure in English (PDF, 1 MB).
Download the brochure in Spanish (PDF, 1 MB).

From The Children's Partnership
August 2003

This brochure, available in both English and Spanish, explains how California's parents can use the school lunch application to sign their children up for health coverage.

Download the brochure in English (PDF, 1 MB).
Download the brochure in Spanish (PDF, 1 MB).

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 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, Beth Morrow, Wendy Lazarus, and Andy Schneider | November 2000

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).

Download recommendations sent to California policymakers responsible for designing eligibility and enrollment under ACA

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.