California Health Report

Concern over accessibility to dental care for children on Medi-Cal brings to surface the need for alternative solutions to increase access. "One of the solutions is to bring dental care to children where they are," says Kattlove. "School-based programs are very successful in addressing access issues."

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Innovations in Health Reform Update April 2013  (pdf)

When it comes to innovators in health reform, Oklahoma deserves special recognition for taking steps to put an online real-time eligibility and enrollment system into place even before the ACA passed. In 2007, Oklahoma began planning for a first-class paperless application system for its Medicaid program, SoonerCare. Since 2010, Oklahoma has had a No Wrong Door online application that provides 24-hour, 7-day a week access to online enrollment and benefits for its most vulnerable population.

Santa Monica, CA - Wendy Lazarus, Founder & Co-President, joins a broad coalition of health care officials and advocates for a press event in Los Angeles to urge state elected officials to move quickly to expand Medi-Cal.  If legislation to expand Medi-Cal is not signed into law in the next 6 weeks, over one million low-income, working people will be left without coverage as healthcare reform is implemented. For each month of delay, California will lose hundreds of millions of federal dollars.

From Ms. Lazarus' statement, "After decades of work to secure health coverage and care for California’s 10 million children, we are finally only 188 days away from when the doors to that coverage will open thanks to the Affordable Care Act. The Medi-Cal expansion is an indispensable piece to ensure that when families start to enroll on October 1, 1.4 million low-income parents and childless adults will not be left out. Although the ...