Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today unveiled a revised budget proposal for fiscal year 2010-2011 that will result in more families being unable to afford health coverage for their children.  read more »

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today unveiled a budget proposal for fiscal year 2010-2011 that makes drastic cuts to California’s Healthy Families and Medi-Cal programs, which currently provides affordable health coverage for nearly 4.5 million children.  read more »

Today, California's Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board voted to freeze enrollment of children into the state's successful Healthy Families program effective July 17, unless the Governor and Legislature can find a solution to fully-fund this program and protect children's coverage or unless private resources can be found to fund the deficit facing this program.  read more »

The results of the Special Election have set the stage for this year's budget negotiations, and as they get underway, the Governor and Legislative leaders can not make children's health a victim of the state's failed budget system.  read more »

Today's actions by the Governor clearly demonstrate his continued lack of commitment toward our most needy children.  read more »

Washington, DC - Today, the new Congress took an important step to support California's successful and cost-effective Healthy Families program, which provides health coverage for 900,000 California children.  read more »

While we understand the budget situation that faces our state, our leaders must not forget that this economic downturn is having a devastating impact on families throughout California. Families are losing their homes and their jobs, and with those job losses they are losing health coverage.  read more »

Recent cuts to children's health and economic crisis could reverse progress in covering kids.  read more »

More than 162,000 eligible children at risk of falling through safety net and losing hope of needed health coverage.  read more »

A new study in the October issue of the journal Medical Care suggests that recent budget cuts to California's Medi-Cal program will come at a high price – not only increasing the number of uninsured children, but also driving up hospitalization costs.  read more »