CA Healthcare for all Kids
Californian Children Need Your Help; Healthy Families Program May Close its Doors
More than 162,000 eligible children are at risk of falling through safety net and losing hope of needed health coverage.
California Legislature Passes Budget That Would Reverse a Decade of Progress in Covering Uninsured Children
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.
State Budget Expected to Derail Years of Progress in California's Children's Health Coverage System
This week, the plight of children’s health in this year’s state budget garnered front page media attention.
An Unforgettable Lesson
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?”
