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Summary
On December 19, 2000 Governor Gray Davis, Health and
Human Services Agency Secretary Grantland Johnson and
legislators initiated a very important effort to improve
health care for California families. By submitting
a "waiver request" to federal officials,
California became one of the first states to develop
a plan for using available federal State Children's
Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) funds to provide health
coverage for working parents who lack health insurance
but whose children qualify for publicly-funded health
insurance.
This report attempts to answer the following questions:
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How can we "modernize" the largest health
insurance programs for low-income working families
in California to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy,
cut the duplicative red tape that families encounter,
and make the various funding sources operate as one
simple-to-use program?
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How can we remove the perceived barriers associated
with California's two largest public health insurance
programs so they "look and feel" as much
as possible like the private sector care that Californians
value?
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How can we best leverage available state and federal
dollars to cover the greatest number of uninsured
Californians?
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How can we most effectively target eligibility to
low-income working uninsured parents and children
who are not eligible today?
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