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  • 2024 Legislative Priorities

    2024 Legislative Priorities

    The 2024 General Assembly session begins Wednesday, January 10 and ends March 9. Our power as an organization is in the people who take action with us, and thanks to you we've buil ...

  • The True Cost of Diabetes by Shelia Carter

    The True Cost of Diabetes by Shelia Carter

    On August 29, President Biden announced that Medicare has selected the first 10 medications that they will negotiate lower prices for. These negotiations were made possible by the ...

  • The Alyssa House | Featured Community Partner

    The Alyssa House | Featured Community Partner

    In the fight against childhood cancer, children are noncombatants. That is the response of The Alyssa House Board Chair, Lynn Divers, to the more common conception of cancer treatm ...

  • Brave Souls on Fire | Featured Community Partner

    Brave Souls on Fire | Featured Community Partner

    Not all mental health care is created equal. For Myra Anderson of Brave Souls on Fire, nothing underlines that statement more than the ways Black people have experienced marginaliz ...

ACTION ALERT: Town Hall Meeting on Medicaid Expansion

ACTION ALERT: Town Hall Meeting on Medicaid Expansion

Monday, April 28, 2014 at 6 p.m. at the Waynesboro Public Library in Community Room A (600 S Wayne Ave., Waynesboro, VA 22980) Virginia Organizing will hold a rally in support of ...

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Health Center Hosts Forum on Medicaid Expansion

Health Center Hosts Forum on Medicaid Expansion

Published on January 28, 2014HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) -- The Harrisonburg Community Health Center hosted a forum on Medicaid expansion Tuesday morning.It is a controversial i ...

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Harrisonburg Community Health Center hosts Forum on Medicaid Expansion

Harrisonburg Community Health Center hosts Forum on Medicaid Expansion

For Immediate Release: January 23, 2014 MEDIA ADVISORY What: Forum on the importance of Expanding Insurance Coverage for low-income Virginians When: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at 9 ...

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Virginia Small Business Update  #74   January 23, 2014

Virginia Small Business Update #74 January 23, 2014

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has come out strongly in favor of Medicaid expansion.  Citing the economic benefits of Medicaid expansion, the Governor has called on the Me ...

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Medicaid Expansion Is Right For Virginia

Medicaid Expansion Is Right For Virginia

Published by The Washington Post on January 18, 2014Virginia is one of the richest states in the nation but one of the stingiest in providing health coverage for the poor. Owing t ...

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Medicaid Expansion Critical To Job Growth

Medicaid Expansion Critical To Job Growth

Published by The Times Dipatch on January 19, 2014Editor, Times-Dispatch:Jobs are a critical issue in Virginia now. Employment opportunities are growing slower than the working ag ...

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Health Law Has Dual Deficit Benefit

Health Law Has Dual Deficit Benefit

Published by The Daily Progress on January 19, 2014Many people ask how the Affordable Care Act subsidies are paid for, and many are uninformed or misinformed, claiming the ACA wil ...

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Uninsured need Medicaid expansion

Uninsured need Medicaid expansion

Published by The Times Dispatch on January 15, 2014Medicaid expansion is the right thing to do, despite Ken Cuccinelli’s claims in his Op/Ed column, “Medicaid expansio ...

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COMMENTARY: REAL PEOPLE, HERE IN VIRGINIA, NEED MEDICAID

COMMENTARY: REAL PEOPLE, HERE IN VIRGINIA, NEED MEDICAID

Published by The Free Lance-Star on December 29, 2013By Eunice Haigler, Virginia Organizing Fredericksburg LeaderWHEN I WAS 17, I started to suffer from migraine headaches. Throug ...

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Obamacare Medicaid Split Creates Two Americas for Poor

Obamacare Medicaid Split Creates Two Americas for Poor

Publlished by Bloomberg on January 6, 2014An affordable health coverage sign stands as a man peeks in a window from outside a... Read MoreAmber Sanchez, a San Francisco ...

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