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SACRAMENTO - Several hundred thousand low-income children face losing their health insurance beginning Oct. 1 under a decision Thursday by the state panel that oversees California's Healthy Families program.
The vote is a result of $175 million in cuts to Healthy Families as part of last month's budget-balancing package. It came despite an $81.4 million contribution to the insurance program from a statewide commission that gets money from a voter-approved tax on tobacco products to pay for early childhood efforts.
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