Building an On-Ramp to Children's Health Coverage: A Report on California's Express Lane Eligibility Program


 

Publication Date: September 2004

Publisher: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

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Research Area: Health

Type: Report

Coverage: California

Abstract:

This report documents the results from California’s Express Lane Eligibility (ELE) initiative through the school lunch program (now one year into implementation), which has been piloted in 72 schools in 5 school districts in the state. ELE is an enrollment strategy that targets large numbers of uninsured children, who are eligible for the federal-state programs Medicaid and SCHIP, where they can be found: in other public programs like school lunch and food stamps.