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Fed warning threatens CA kids’ health program

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

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A grim prognosis for a highly touted program that provides health insurance for poor children in California: A federal review says a plan to save California Healthy Families Program may violate tax laws. The bipartisan agreement was touted as a crucial piece of legislation that helped save the California Healthy Families Program from devastating budget cuts. Just [...]

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Fed warning threatens CA kids’ health program

Monday, January 25, 2010

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A grim prognosis for a highly touted program that provides health insurance for poor children in California: A federal review says a plan to save California Healthy Families Program may violate tax laws. The bipartisan agreement was touted as a crucial piece of legislation that helped save the California Healthy Families Program from devastating budget cuts. Just [...]

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Health-Care Reform to Dump Poor Kids?

Monday, January 18, 2010

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Oleta Fitzgerald, director of the Children’s Defense Fund’s Southern Regional Office, says she is concerned over the welfare of Mississippi children if either of the two health-care reform packages considered by the U.S. House and Senate ever make it into law. The House passed H.R. 3962 earlier this month, and Senate Democrats managed to beat back [...]

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Extending health care to more kids

Sunday, January 17, 2010

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OneWorld Community Health Center is looking for 6,000 kids. The agency that generally provides health care to the underserved has received $706,264 from the federal government to create a program to enroll thousands of children in either of two government insurance programs for low-income children. Many metro-area children are eligible but aren’t enrolled because their families don’t [...]

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