1. Announcements *State Coalition Meeting 6 featuring special guests Representative Arakaki, Senator Chun Oakland, and Cornelius Hogan is Monday, 4 December at 10:00. The Process Simplification Task Force will also meet with Con on the same day at 2:00. Everyone is welcome and details are on our calendar. Quote from an eighth grader "To show is fierce, no show is whack!" * Welcome to LaVerne Lucero who replaced Terri Lei Napeahi as the Hawaii Covering Kids outreach worker for East Hawaii. * Med-QUEST's enrollment numbers are available. To download the PDF file go to Data. 2. California's Web Site on Health Coverage for Uninsured Children Explore innovative strategies schools, nonprofit organizations and county health agencies are using to enroll children in Healthy Families, Medi-Cal for Children and other subsidized health insurance programs. Healthy Kids Project 3. New Ground for New Health Care Proposal Three health organizations--Health Insurance Association of America, Families USA, and the American Hospital Association--proposed a plan that may be able to break a Congressional deadlock on legislative initiatives to expand health care coverage to more low-income families. The plan includes expanding Medicaid coverage to all people with annual incomes below 133 percent of poverty and giving states expanded options to provide Medicaid or CHIP coverage for parents and childless adults with incomes between 133 and 200 percent of poverty. 4. Putting Express Lane Eligibility Into Practice A serious challenge confronting leaders today is how to reach and enroll the roughly 8 million uninsured children who are eligible for but not enrolled in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), according to the Children's Partnership. This guidebook from the Children's Partnership and the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured provides a how-to on express lane eligibility to help states take advantage of the fact that most eligible children (about 70 percent) are enrolled in other public programs and have already submitted extensive eligibility information. http://www.childrenspartnership.org/express_lane/index.html