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California Makes Progress Reducing the Number of Uninsured Children

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.

Terms:100% Campaign, California, California Coverage, CHIP/Healthy Families, Medicaid/Medi-Cal, Press Release

Wendy Lazarus on Ensuring Children Not Harmed in Closing Healthy Families Program

California Healthline

Download article here.

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

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.”

Download article here.

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

Coalition Letter to Governor Brown and CA Legislature on Healthy Families Elimination

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

Terms:100% Campaign, California Coverage, CHIP/Healthy Families, Health Care/Reform, Letters of Support, Press Release

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."

Download article here.

Terms:California, California Coverage, CHIP/Healthy Families, Press Clips, 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.

Download op-ed here.

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

Support Letter to Protect CHIPRA Performance Bonus Funding

The Children's Partnership joined a broad coalition of national advocates opposing a vote by the House Energy and Commerce Committee to cut $400 million from CHIPRA Performance Bonuses funding.

Download the letter sent to all House health staff May 7, 2012

Terms:CHIP/Healthy Families, Federal, Health Care/Reform, Letters of Support