State Sen. Touts Legislation To Aid Healthy Kids Program
San Mateo's Healthy Kids program "is in need of a booster shot," which is why "I have introduced Senate Bill 36 to ensure that it stays healthy as the recession and California's budget crisis leave more children without health insurance," state Sen. Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) writes in a San Jose Mercury News opinion piece. Simitian writes that the legislation would adjust state law, which "does not allow counties to insure children in families whose income exceeds 300% of the federal poverty level, even if a county wants to use its own funds to so do."
- "Legislature Must Clear the Way To Help San Mateo Kids" (Simitian, San Jose Mercury News, 1/26).