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February 1, 2013
Editor's note from the Say Ahhh! blog: Happy Super Bowl Weekend! As diehard Say Ahhh! fans know, that means its time for our annual Super Blog-Off. This year, we’ve asked the blogging teams to face off on which state has done more to make the promise of the Affordable Care Act a reality for its residents. Taking the field for the Ravens is Suzanne Schlattman with Maryland Health Care for All Coalition. Kristen Golden Testa of the Children’s Partnership and Michael Odeh with Children Now have teamed up to make the case for 49ers fans, which you can read below and at the Say Ahhh! blog . You...
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October 24, 2012
By Wendy Lazarus and Laurie Lipper Co-Presidents of The Children’s Partnership The Presidential Debates missed focusing on the job held by 155 million Americans: parenting. Here are five questions that the candidates should have answered—and still can. The Presidential Debates are over. And despite all the talk about jobs and the economy, there’s one job that neither Presidential candidate has mentioned much, even though 155 million Americans have it: the job of being a parent. According to the US Census Bureau, there are an estimated 85.4 million moms and an estimated 70.1 million dads...
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November 30, 2011
Since when is 14,000 no different than 5,000? When the U.S. Treasury Department estimates the affordability of a family's health insurance. If it goes uncorrected, their fuzzy math may deny affordable health coverage to 270,000 Californians--122,000 of whom are children. While premiums continue to rise across the board, families face particularly steep increases. Since 2003, families have seen their employer-sponsored health insurance premiums increase by 50%, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report . Currently, the average cost for a family to purchase health insurance is just under $14,...
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July 7, 2011
As policy makers in Washington DC work to reduce the federal budget deficit, we should all be watching carefully where the budget ax swings, especially when it nears our children. Luckily, California is raising the red flag when proposed federal cuts result in more state costs and less health care services for children. Governor Jerry Brown sent a letter last week to President Obama objecting to a proposal to shift federal Medicaid costs to the states. The proposal at issue is referred to as the “blended FMAP rate.” On its face, the proposal seems like an efficiency: combining three federal...
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May 25, 2011
In the discussion about the national debt, the moral imperative of not saddling our children with debt is frequently heralded. It makes perfect sense that the current generation should find ways to manage finances wisely to avoid such a scenario. It also makes sense that we should make investments to provide children with the ability to grow up to be healthy and productive. What doesn’t make sense is to rob today’s children of the health care they need in order to achieve unrelated goals of balanced budgets—and this is exactly what a debt reduction scheme like the global spending cap would do...
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September 20, 2010
And we’re off! Implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is officially underway! Less than six months after Congress passed the ACA, California has blazed the trail as the first state in the nation to create a statewide Health Insurance Exchange under the Act. Two complementary pieces of legislation create the California Health Benefit Exchange and are headed to Governor Schwarzenegger’s desk for an expected signature – ( AB 1602 creates the Exchange and SB 900 creates a decision-making board). By creating the Exchange, the State has built a framework that will dramatically improve the...
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