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Beth Morrow on Need for Medicaid Enrollment in ERs

State Health Watch

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Terms:Beth Morrow, Family-Friendly Enrollment, Medicaid/Medi-Cal, Press Clips

Families Now Able to Apply Online for Health Coverage

In Time to Send THeir Kids Back to School Healthy

Comprehensive Health, Dental, Vision Coverage for Children in Low-Income & Working Families

Oakland - For the first time in California, families preparing for the new school year can apply, on their own, for free or low-cost health coverage through the Medi-Cal and Healthy Families programs for their children online using Health-e-App, an online application tool. Health coverage can ensure that children have the immunizations, physicals, and other routine & preventive health care services they need to be able to do their best in school.

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Terms:100% Campaign, Medicaid/Medi-Cal, Press Release

Wendy Lazarus Comments on How the Hatch Gingrey Legislation Harms California's Children

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.

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Terms:100% Campaign, Health , Medicaid/Medi-Cal, Press Release

California Children's Health Advocates Applaud Governor Brown for Rejecting Dangerous Medicaid Block Grant Scheme

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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Terms:100% Campaign, Health , Medicaid/Medi-Cal, Press Release