Overview
Take Action
Reports and Updates
Key Partner Organizations
Other Resources

Overview

The Children's Alliance believes that all children have the right to health insurance and preventive health care services including mental, dental, and vision- essential tools to ensuring healthy childhood development and growth. Children without health insurance are far more likely to miss school, less ready to learn, and more likely to go to the emergency room for treatable conditions such as asthma attacks or ear infections.

Take Action

Cover All Kids Update for 2008 Legislative Session

Download and Print the Cover All Kids Update (pdf)

Sharing Stories Contest: Help protect the Cover All Kids law with stories of the benefits of health coverage for all kids.

Join our Children's Action Network and find out how you can take action to improve the health and lives of children.

Reports and Updates

New! 2008 Legislative Session Review: Children's Health (pdf)

2008 Legislative Session Review: Full Report (pdf)

2007 End of Session Report - PULLOUT SECTION: Health Coverage for Every Child

2007 End of Session Report - FULL REPORT

• SCHIP Reauthorization Priorities: sample letter to Congress (October 2007)
  
  
• Cover All Kids Summary of the Law (7/16/07)
  
  
• Cover All Kids Report Timeline (7/16/07)
  
  
• Children's Health Insurance Timeline, Kaiser Family Foundation
  
  
• Health Coalition for Children and Youth position paper on SCHIP Reauthorization (5/14/07)
  
  
• Summary of SB 5093 in plain language (3/6/07)
  
  
• Broad Support for Children's Health bill (SB 5093) (3/5/07)
  
  
• Fact sheet about the bill to cover all children by 2010, and list of supporters



• 2007 policy paper (pdf) - Screen version, best for viewing on screen (color). PRINT version, best for printing (grayscale).



• The Health Coalition for Children and Youth Proposal to the Blue Ribbon Commission on Health Care Quality and Access, October 19, 2006 (pdf)



• Children's Alliance Proposal for Health Outreach and Health Promotion, October, 2006 (pdf)



• 23 million in new federal dollars available for children's health care - February 10, 2006 (pdf)



• Responding to the Crisis: Full Health Coverage for Washington's Children, January 2006 follows the December 2004 release of "Condition Critical", a detailed look at policy choices of the past decade and their impacts on children's health coverage. This new report notes that policy makers have taken meaningful steps in the past year to stem the tide of children losing health coverage in Washington State, but much remains to be done if we are to cover the 100,000 Washington children who lack health insurance. Most urgently, 10,000 immigrant children are sitting on a waiting list for a newly restored state program that is severely underfunded.
  • Full report (pdf)
  • County-by-county breakdown of applications received for the Children's Health Program December 1-16, 2005 (pdf).



• Read the Children's Alliance's policy paper for the 2006 legislative session (pdf)



• Current Priorities, January 2, 2006 (pdf)



• A June 2005 survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation found strong support for the Medicaid Program despite current budget woes. Read the full survey and what it says about support for health insurance programs for low-income and working families.



• Condition Critical: Washington's Curable Children's Health Crisis, December 2004
  • Executive Summary (PDF)
  • Full Report (PDF)


• Health and Washington's Children: Learn more about the health of Washington's children

Acting on a Common Vision for children's Health

On November 29th, the Children's Alliance hosted a daylong conference "Acting on a Common Vision for Children's Health" dedicated to the issue of improving children's health. The day began with a video welcome from Governor Chris Gregoire. View it on YouTube. You can also see pictures from the summit on Flickr.

Participants spent the first part of the day hearing from speakers about the challenges we face to improve children's health. The latter half of the day focused on a policy proposal that has been put forward by the Health Coalition for Children and Youth to cover all children in Washington by 2010 and improve their overall health (see below for a link).

The day ended with strategy sessions about how the Children's Alliance and our partners will work to make this proposal law during the 2007 Legislative Session.

Key Partner Organizations

• Health Coalition for Children and Youth The Children's Alliance provides staffing for the(HCCY). HCCY is a group of health care providers, stakeholders, and advocates representing the health care needs of all Washington's children.
  
  
• Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center



• Citizen's Watch for Oral Health



• Save Health Care in Washington



• Washington Chapter, American Academy of Pediatricians



• Washington Health Foundation



• Washington State Hospital Association



• Washington State PTA

Other Resources

• Children's Defense Fund report: Improving Children's Health: Understanding Children's Health Disparities and Promising Approaches to Address Them (pdf)
  
  
• University of Washington's Health Policy Analysis Program paper on enrollment instability



• University of Washington's Health Policy Analysis Program paper on immigrant health



• Kaiser Report on Barriers to Coverage for Children and Families



• Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured Fact Sheet on Health Coverage for Low-Income Children



• Key Facts on Race, Ethnicity and Medicaid Care
  
  
• Children's Health Insurance Timeline
  
  
  
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