SLO County News BlogGolf, Wine, Real Estate, Business & Travel NewsSLO Kid's Are CoveredMonday, August 29, 2005On Sept. 1, every child in San Luis Obispo County will be eligible for health insurance - regardless their family's income or immigration status - thanks to a nonprofit called Children's Health Initiative of San Luis Obispo and a program called Healthy Kids.Three years in the making, the dozens of organizations and people behind Healthy Kids say they'll be able to give 400 kids this year full medical, vision, and dental coverage - a number that will hopefully grow to 1,000 kids by 2008. At the same time, 2,000 other children will be signed up for state and federal insurance programs. Despite federal and state programs set up to help insure children, as of 2002, an estimated 3,000 kids in San Luis Obispo County still lack any kind of health coverage. San Luis Obispo is not the first California county with a program like this. That honor goes to Santa Clara County, home of Silicon Valley. Kena Burke, the executive director of San Luis' program, said Santa Clara officials started Healthy Kids as a result of the dot-com bubble crash five years ago. Suddenly, thousands of children had no insurance as their parents' jobs evaporated when company after company imploded. Read entire article by Abraham Hyatt at New Times for more information and to learn how you can donate to Healthy Kids: Sick no more Healthy Kids: www.slohealthykids.org Read More
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