For Immediate Release: January 6, 2009 Contact: Sookyung Oh, NAKASEC, 267.334.5918 Drawing Attention to Children’s Health Care Artwork by Kids Collected Nationwide Unveiled in Washington, D.C. during Inaugural Week What: America’s Future Starts with Healthy Children Art Exhibit: Collected from 24 states, nearly 400 students submitted original, hand-drawn art work […]
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내년 1월, 미국전역의 젊은 예술가들이 수도인 워싱턴에 오게 됩니다. 미국의 젊은 예술가들이, 미국정치사에 중대한 장을 여는 싯점에, 예술작품을 통해, 다음 세대의 미래를 결정짓게 될 중대한 이슈를, 우리 모두의 삶과 직접 연결된 문제로 알리게 됩니다. 대통령 선서식에 참석하기 위해 모인 정책입안자들과 국회의원, 여타 정치가들과 국민들의 관심을 모으기 위하여, 미국 전역의 어린 […]
Resource: An excerpt from Out Of Touch: A Status Report on CMS’s August 17th Directive by the Center for Children & Families, Georgetown University (May 2008). Available at: http://ccf.georgetown.edu/index/cms-filesystem-action?file=ccf%20publications/federal%20schip%20policy/outoftouchfinal-1.pdf On August 17, 2007, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sent a letter to state health officials sharply restricting […]
Resource: An excerpt from Enrolling Uninsured Low-Income Children in Medicaid and SCHIP by the Kaiser Commission on Key Facts (January 2007) Available at: http://www.kff.org/medicaid/upload/2177-05.pdf Together, Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) provide health coverage for one in four of our nation’s children. Currently, over 28 million children […]
Resource: An excerpt from Bar to a Healthy Future: Stories of Immigrant Children Left Behind by Julie Chinitz & Gerald Smith, Health Rights Organizing Project (June 2007) Available at: http://nwfco.org/pubs/2007.0530_Bar.2.Healthy.Future.pdf Access to quality health insurance makes a big difference in children’s lives. Before 1996, all children residing lawfully in the […]
Resource: Excerpt from Freezing SCHIP Funding in Coming Years Would Reverse Recent Gains in Children’s Health Coverage authored by Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (November 28, 2006) Available at: www.mrmib.ca.gov/MRMIB/HFP/CBP11.06Report.pdf, and http://www.healthrightsproject.org/in/schip/archivedreports/CBPP_SCHIP.pdf Due in large part to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), the percentage of low-income children […]
Resource: Letter to Congressional Leadership on SCHIP by Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, Congressional Black Caucus, and Congressional Hispanic Caucus (July 2008) Available at: 2008-07-22-final-tricaucus-schip-letter-leadership.pdf Congress of the United States Washington, DC 20515 July 22, 2008 The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House U.S. Capitol Washington, DC 20515