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