The Santa Clara County Children’s Health Initiative seeks to provide coverage through the Healthy Kids initiative to all children in the county whose family incomes are below 300 percent of the federal poverty level. This brief provides new evidence on the effects of insurance coverage on...

Health insurance coverage for children remains a serious policy issue throughout the United States. The Santa Clara County Children's Health Initiative (CHI), launched in January 2001, is an ambitious effort to close gaps in health insurance coverage for children. This report underscores the...

This comprehensive study found that Santa Clara County’s Healthy Kids program—a health insurance program for children in low and middle income families—is closing a major gap in health care for county children. Since it was launched in 2001, Healthy Kids has insured over 25,000...

Health insurance coverage for children remains a serious policy issue throughout the United States. The Santa Clara County Children's Health Initiative (CHI), launched in January 2001, is an ambitious effort to close gaps in health insurance coverage for children. This report underscores the...

This brief highlights rigorous, independent evaluations of the Healthy Kids programs in three California counties: Los Angeles, San Mateo, and Santa Clara. It describes some of the many positive impacts that Healthy Kids programs have had on children’s access and use of dental services. For...

This comprehensive study found that Santa Clara County’s Healthy Kids program--a health insurance program for children in low and middle income families--is closing a major gap in health care for county children. Since it was launched in 2001, Healthy Kids has insured over 25,000 children in...

The Santa Clara County Children’s Health Initiative is an innovative effort to expand low-income children’s health insurance in this California county. This issue brief describes changes in children's medical care and other outcomes during the most recent three years that they had stable...

The Santa Clara County Children’s Health Initiative (CHI), launched in January 2001, seeks to extend health coverage to all uninsured children in that California county. This issue brief measures the effect of the initiative on enrollment in Medi-Cal and Healthy Families, the two major state...