Medi-Cal and Healthy Families, as well as local children's health initiatives, are lifelines for children who have no other access to affordable health coverage. In fact, without Medi-Cal and Healthy Families, nearly four and a half million additional California children would be uninsured. The story of children's health coverage, however, is not merely a story about numbers. In this packet, California families share their personal experiences in the hope that all of our state's children will one day have health coverage that meets their needs at a cost their parents can afford. Read their stories here.