100% Campaign

The Children's Partnership developed a new factsheet on the CHDP Gateway, with recommendations on incorporating it as part of California’s implementation of the ACA and further strengthened to serve as an important pathway for meeting the health and enrollment goals of health care reform while maintaining its ability for children to access needed services.

According to a new report by the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute’s Center for Children and Families, the rate of uninsured children in California declined 1.5 percent between 2009 and 2011, which ranks the state 12th in the nation for the decline in the child uninsured rate. 

“This reduction in uninsured children is fantastic news for our state’s children and families, said Wendy Lazarus, Founder and Co-President of The Children’s Partnership. “With the implementation of health care reform just around the corner and our state’s commitment to successfully transition nearly 900,000 children from Healthy Families to Medi-Cal, it is finally within our reach to ensure that every child in California receives high quality health coverage.”

Read more about the effort to insure all of California's children in the joint press release here. 

The Children's Partnership joins a broad coalition in a statement urging the Legislature to vote "no" on Health Families elimination.

SACRAMENTO, CA – This week, the 100% Campaign highlighted a new Urban Institute report whose findings call into question Governor Brown's proposal to move 875,000 children covered by Healthy Families into Medi-Cal. The issue brief, "The Future of Healthy Families:Transitioning to 2014 and beyond," summarizes research examining the potential impact of moving children currently receiving health coverage through California's Healthy Families Program to Medi-Cal or the California Health Benefit Exchange.

Download the full press release.