Campaign
Update
Friday, May 11, 2007
Inside This Issue:
A recent statewide survey conducted for The California Endowment has found that California voters define health care coverage for all children as a top priority while citing overwhelming support for broader health care reform. Support for these measures run deep, as voters of all partisan and ideological persuasions--as well as voters in all parts of the state--support reform, which must include health coverage for all of California's children.
- Consistent with previous polls, this most recent survey continues to show that voters overwhelmingly support covering all children. Fully 82 percent of registered voters argue that all children should be covered; and when they are provided a more detailed description of how this can happen--including a description of the costs involved--support remains very high; 73 percent support the plan.
- For more information about the voter survey, click here.
Congressional Representative Pete Stark (Fremont), Chairman of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, will join healthcare workers and children's advocacy groups in celebrating Mother's Day by urging Congress to fully fund the State Children's Health Insurance Program. SCHIP, called Healthy Families in California, provides health coverage for hundreds of thousands of our state's children, and must be fully funded to ensure that all California children get the health insurance they need.
| Who: | Congressman Pete Stark, Fremont Assemblymember Mary Hayashi, D-Hayward Sal Rosselli, president, SEIU UHW Mary Dean, Senior Vice President, Children's Hospital of Oakland Dr. Sheldon Orloff, Kaiser Permanente Patient caregivers, mothers and their children |
| When: | Saturday, May 12 at 2:30 p.m. |
| Where: | Children's
Hospital & Research Center of Oakland Outpatient Center (next to parking deck) 744 52nd St., Oakland, CA 94609 |
Thank you for your continued support for covering all kids.
The 100% Campaign,
a collaborative effort of Children Now, Children's Defense Fund and
The Children's Partnership, was created to ensure that all of California's
children obtain the health insurance they need to grow up strong
and healthy.
www.100percentcampaign.org
The PICO California
Project is the united effort of 20 California congregation-community
organizations affiliated with the PICO National Network. Collectively,
we represent 350 congregations and 400,000 families statewide and
are actively organizing in over 70 cities in Northern and Southern
California.
www.picocalifornia.org