Nearly one million children in California are without health insurance. Only ten percent of these uninsured girls and boys are eligible for public assistance. To understand what being uninsured means for a family struggling to make ends meet, we visit a doctor’s office where a child with a chronic ear infection has to face the grief of feeling guilty…for being sick.
The second installment of a three-part series, “Kids for Real.” An earlier version of this story first aired September 30, 2005.
- Cutting Red Tape Would Help Uninsured Children Get Health Coverage, Study Finds, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (PDF)
- “100% Campaign: Health Insurance For Every California Child,” campaign organized by Children Now, Children’s Defense Fund and The Children’s Partnership.
- AB 772: California Healthy Kids Insurance Program, bill status
- Priority Projects: Assemblymember Wilma Chan, (D-Oakland), sponsor of AB 772
- The Pico California Project, a coalition of congregation-community organizations affiliated with the Pacific Institute for Community Organization, advocates for AB 772
- California’s Uninsured: A Look at Trends and Demographics, California HealthCare Foundation (PDF)
- Latino Health in California, Latino Coalition for a Healthy California (PDF)
- “The State of Health Insurance in California“, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
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