‘Strategies for Better Child Health’ Focus of NC Conference

State legislators gathered in North Carolina at an October Community Policy and Leadership Forum (CPLF) to develop new strategies to promote children’s health care in the southeastern U.S. CPA’s Children’s Health Care Issues Roundtable brought legislators and officials from Mississippi to Maryland together with representatives from the Children’s Defense Fund, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Families USA, and Georgetown University’s Harrison Institute.

Legislators focused on how to improve health care for children of the working poor, many of whom will be affected by proposed Medicaid expansion and moves to tighten state welfare rolls. Roundtable participants discussed not only how they can incorporate successful community initiatives in their own states, but how to take these successes to the next level in the children’s health arena by working with the insurance industry and medical specialty fields.