Good news for those on the waiting list for health coverage: With the help of funding from First 5 California, the state’s Healthy Families program today moved to safeguard more than 65,000 infants and children from waiting lists for health coverage due to the budget crisis. First 5 California will provide $16.7 million to the [...]

AAFP’s Commission on Legislation and Governmental Affairs member and volunteer medical director for “Hope for Kids”, Audrey Boyd, M.D. of Columbia, SC has made an effort to urge doctors to enroll in the Children’s Health Insurance Program of their state as health providers. The purpose is for them to educate families about the importance of [...]

The CHIP is expected to pass and is now in full planning, here’s the details of the program which aims to give children the badly needed coverage from the debunked health care system. The program aims to offer a lot of medical benefits for kids such as; eye exams and glasses should they be needed, [...]

Some 4 million children both citizen and non-citizen are to receive accreditation for health care as part of Pres. Obama’s drive to boost the reach of health care to those who need it most. Many children in America have suffered due to inadequate coverage of the past health care system which is one of the [...]

Here’s a heads-up for consumers. Beware of Chinese milk products that may be contaminated with melamine. Since early September, melamine-contaminated baby formula has sickened more than 54,000 children in China and is being blamed for at least four deaths. The chemical is typically used as a component in plastic but can be used to seemingly [...]

The United States Conference of Mayors was tremendously disappointed when US President George Bush vetoed a bill that would have funded $35 million to State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), a health insurance program providing coverage to families with low to moderate income. Mayor Douglas H. Palmer of Trenton, New Jersey who is President of [...]

Governor Chris Gregoire of Washington wrote a letter for US President George W. Bush requesting the Bush administration to withdraw a federal directive preventing Washington and other states to increase their access to health care coverage to millions of uninsured children. In her letter, she mentioned that it is the goal of Washington to provide [...]

The president of the United States vetoed a bill that will benefit children of families with lower income. The bill is supposed to add $35 billion to a program that will give the children health insurance coverage which shows the State Children’s Health Insurance Program as a valuable prerogative program that has even more benefited [...]