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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 ...

The group that got health reform passed is declaring victory and going home

The group that got health reform passed is declaring victory and going home

Published January 5, 2014 by The Washington PostIt’s hard to remember now, as the Affordable Care Act’s biggest programs come into effect, but many central decisions r ...

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The Latest Obamacare Controversy Doesn’t Actually Mean Health Reform Is Falling Apart

The Latest Obamacare Controversy Doesn’t Actually Mean Health Reform Is Falling Apart

Published January 3, 2014 by Think ProgressAccording to new research published on Thursday, extending Medicaid coverage to additional low-income Americans encourages the ...

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Virginia Organizing Hosts Health Care Forum

Virginia Organizing Hosts Health Care Forum

For Immediate Release: December 18, 2013What: Forum on Enrolling in Health Insurance Marketplace When: Thursday, December 19 at 6:30 p.m. Where: Waynesbor ...

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BRAMLETTE: MR. HOWELL — WE WANT DETAILS, PLEASE, ON YOUR ‘ALTERNATIVE’

BRAMLETTE: MR. HOWELL — WE WANT DETAILS, PLEASE, ON YOUR ‘ALTERNATIVE’

By KATHIE BRAMLETTEPublished in the Free Lance-StarWHILE I have never met William J. Howell, I would think he is of an age to remember when Medicare began [“Responsible alte ...

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Virginia Main Street Alliance Update #72

Virginia Main Street Alliance Update #72

The website for health care reform is clearly working better. The White House reports that the site can now handle 50,000 visitors at one time. Plus, the success rate is now ...

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Update: MIRC Meeting Scheduled for December 17

Update: MIRC Meeting Scheduled for December 17

Great News! After the action alert sent to our supporters this morning, we discovered the Medicaid Innovation and Reform Commission (MIRC) hasscheduled a meeting for Tuesday, ...

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MIRC Needs to Schedule a Meeting

MIRC Needs to Schedule a Meeting

The 2014 General Assembly session begins on January 8, 2014 and will last 60 days. This year, like last year, one of the most important issues facing our legislators is ...

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Let’s Talk Turkey!

Let’s Talk Turkey!

Today, ProgressVA named Virginia’s Speaker of the House, Bill Howell, the “Turkey of the Year.” This award is given to a politician who uses his or her power for ...

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Study: Vast majority will be better off under ACA

Study: Vast majority will be better off under ACA

By Chelyen DavisPublished by The Free Lance-Star on Novemeber 22, 2013A new study says more than three-quarters of the 403,000 Virginians younger than 65 with individual health in ...

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Cville Doctor Fasts in Protest of Government Stalemate over Medicaid

Cville Doctor Fasts in Protest of Government Stalemate over Medicaid

Published March 6, 2014Click here to see full video.CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va (WVIR) -Lawmakers aren't the only ones fed up with the political stalemate over Medicaid expansion in V ...

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