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

California Healthline

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

California Budget Deal Delivers Blow to Children's Health; Advocates Vow Vigilance to See that Protections Are Put in Place

Santa Monica, CA, June 27, 2012 -- "Today, California's Legislature, at the urging of Governor Brown, voted to close down the highly successful Healthy Families Program that has helped millions of kids get the health care they need over the past 15 years. The Children's Partnership and 70 other organizations had strongly opposed the close down of Healthy Families which today provides health care to nearly 900,000 children, favoring a phased transition that would protect children's health," says Wendy Lazarus.

Terms:California, California Coverage, Press Release

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.”

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

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."

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

Wendy Lazarus Calls Budget Deal on Healthy Families Program Reckless and Shortsighted

Santa Monica, CA, June 21, 2012 -- "The Governor and Legislative leaders have struck a short-sighted deal that unnecessarily puts the health of California children at risk," said Wendy Lazarus. "While we understand that hard budget choices had to be made, those choices should not fall on the backs of our children and their ability to get the care they need to stay healthy and succeed in life." Ms. Lazarus joins a broad coalition of advocates who supported an alternative to today's state budget deal. See this Capitol Weekly piece for The Children's Partnership full position on this issue.

Terms:California, California Coverage, Press Release, Wendy Lazarus