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Friday, July 17, 2009

Enrollment freeze for state's low-income child care program, Healthy Families

Beginning today, California's health care program for low-income children will freeze enrollment for the first time in its 10-year history because of the state's ongoing budget crisis.

Healthy Families needs $90 million from the state to cover an estimated 1 million children whose parents earn too much to qualify for Medi-Cal and too little to afford insurance, according to California's Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, which operates the program. That gap adds up to $270 million because the federal government kicks in $2 for every $1 the state spends on the program.

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