Over the past several months, the Children’s Alliance has been talking to parents and children around the state who now have health coverage because of the Cover All Kids law. These stories offer a moving portrait of the human effects of the law—a boy able to play sports, a girl able to smile, a family saved from crushing debt.
Check out our op-ed in today’s Seattle Times telling some of these stories and describing the impact of the law.
"Our girls now have access to the medical care they need to be healthy," Keira and Cali's mother told us. "They get sick less often and they feel better. I love watching them run around just like other little kids."
Since the Cover All Kids law went into effect last year, more than 15,000 children got much-needed health care. Thanks to the law, Washington now has one of the lowest percentages of children without health insurance in the nation.
Read more stories and share them with lawmakers, community leaders, family and friends.
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