Healthy Families To Keep Open Enrollement Open Through June
California’s state sponsored health insurance program for working poor and uninsured children received a last minute contribution from First 5 California. The $16.8 Million contribution will allow Healthy Families California to continue accepting new members through June of ‘09. Without this last minute lifeline, an estimated 162,000 California children would have went without health insurance for at least the next six months.
The Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, which runs the Healthy Families program, had scheduled a meeting for today December 17th to limit new enrollments into the health care program, which currently provides California health insurance for 900,000 children who would otherwise be uninsured.
First 5 California is an organization that is tasked with improving the healthcare of young children in California.
