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State Urged To Spend New CHIP Money Only on Children’s Health Care

Medicare legislation passed in Congress this week includes funding for the federal Children’s Health Insurance Program that could send as much as $550 million to California this year. Children’s advocates say it should go only to children’s health care.

Panel Votes To End Vaccine Exemption

At a contentious and sometimes unruly hearing in the California Legislature yesterday, a bill proposing to eliminate an exemption for childhood immunizations had its first test — and passed it.