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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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Voices for America's Children

Wendy Lazarus guest blogs  on the one-year anniversay of the ACA.

San Francisco Business Times

BSCF supports The Children's Partnership to develop plans to redesign public health care eligibility and enrollment systems.

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Say Ahhh! A Children's Health Policy Blog

Beth Morrow guest blogs on using mobile technology to increase participation in health coverage.

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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Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones and Assembly Member Mike Feuer, joined by Wendy Lazarus, Founder and Co-President of The Children's Partnership, representing The 100% Campaign held a news conference today at the Children's Hospital Los Angeles to highlight a critical open-enrollment period for kids' health insurance that began on January 1, 2011 and ends on March 1.

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Download Wendy Lazarus' full remarks.

Yubanet.com covered the event in this January 28, 2012 article . 

 

The Press-Enterprise

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California Healthline

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