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Say Ahhh! A Children's Health Policy Blog

Kathleen Hamilton guest blogs on the Health Exchange Board's aggressive agenda and meeting schedule for 2011.

Sacramento, CA  - Acoalition of California children’s advocacy organizations expressed opposition to federal legislation that would eliminate state Medicaid eligibility and enrollment requirements and jeopardize the health coverage of 4.5 million California children.

The legislation introduced by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Representative Phil Gingrey (R-GA) would repeal a provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires states to maintain current eligibility and enrollment requirements for Medicaid and CHIP. In California, this children’s coverage stability provision (Maintenance of Effort) ensures that children currently eligible for and covered by Medi-Cal and Healthy Families cannot be dropped from coverage. 

Download a press statement by Wendy Lazarus.

Oakland – California's leading children's health advocacy organizations commended Governor Jerry Brown for his leadership in protecting the health care of California children and the state's taxpayers by rejecting a federal proposal to shift an estimated $148 billion in Medi-Cal costs from the federal government to California.

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Oakland – Children Now, The Children's Partnership, United Ways of California, and the California Children's Health Initiatives announced the receipt of grants today from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation under the Foundation's Insuring America's Children: Getting to the Finish Line initiative. These organizations partner with Children's Defense Fund – California and PICO California in their children's health work. These grants coincide with the two-year anniversary of the reauthorization of the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and will support the organizations in their work to advance policies and best practices that can help cover California children and their families.

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