On Tuesday morning, the California Legislature approved a budget for fiscal year 2008-09 that reverses years of progress in covering children by including provisions that will result in nearly 300,000 children being dropped from health coverage – increasing the number of uninsured children in California by almost 40 percent.
This week, the plight of children’s health in this year’s state budget garnered front page media attention.
Inspiration is in short supply these days in Sacramento. But as I, and several of my MomsRising.org colleagues, delivered YOUR stories about healthcare to legislative aides, I saw a rare glimmer of interest and inspiration. The discussion quickly turned to, “How can we do it?” not “Is it important?”
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