Working With Business to Cover All Kids

Health advocates, business leaders and health policy experts understand that covering all of California's kids will only happen if an equitable partnership between the public and private sector is reached and they are taking steps to get there. In the summer of 2005, United Way and the California Endowment convened a series of seven meetings with business leaders throughout the state to learn more about the challenges businesses face providing health care to their employees and to brainstorm solutions to the problem of how to cover all kids. One thing was clear from these meetings: Business leaders consider health care a priority and understand that covering all kids is not just the right thing to do, it's good for business.

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Key Findings From The California Endowment/United Way Meetings With Business Leaders on Children's Health Coverage

• Health care is in crisis - the status quo is unacceptable and something needs to be done.
• Businesses want to help solve the problem of uninsured children.
• Business leaders generally support a plan to cover all children and have ideas on how best to do it.
• Business leaders see social and economic benefits to covering all kids.

To read the full summary of the meetings, click here.

To learn more about how you can join United Ways efforts to partner with business to cover all kids, click here.