“This is unprecedented, what’s going on now — the waiting list that was established on July 17,” said Wendy Lazarus, founder and co-president of The Children’s Partnership, a non-profit, national children’s advocacy organization. “This finding by the MRMIB that there were insufficient funds is just chilling to parents across the state and the leaders that have worked to get basic health care to kids.”
“We’ve got close to a million kids now without insurance,” she said. “With the big hole in Healthy Families it would add more than 500,000 kids to the ranks of the uninsured.”
