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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 ...

Better Health = A Better Community

Better Health = A Better Community

By Pat YoungPublished in the Roanoke Times, November 7, 2013Healthy Roanoke Valley is a partnership of more than 50 public and private organizations, academic institutions, commun ...

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Forum Supports Expansion Of Program Serving Low-Income Families, Individuals

Forum Supports Expansion Of Program Serving Low-Income Families, Individuals

Published on January 29, 2014 HARRISONBURG — Witnessing a public forum on the debate over expanding Medicaid that doesn’t involve a state lawmaker is a rarity. But for the four pe ...

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Virginia Organizing Shows Support for Medicaid Expansion in Portsmouth

Virginia Organizing Shows Support for Medicaid Expansion in Portsmouth

The South Hampton Roads Chapter of Virginia Organizing and other Portsmouth community members showed up to support Medicaid expansion at Virginia Senator Louise Lucas' town hall m ...

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Medicaid is Far From Broken: New Report

Medicaid is Far From Broken: New Report

New Report Shows Medicaid Is Far From BrokenCritical Health Insurance Should Be Offered to More Virginians RICHMOND, VA - Virginia's Medicaid program isn't the broken ...

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Forums to Help Danville Residents with Health Insurance Marketplace

Forums to Help Danville Residents with Health Insurance Marketplace

For Immediate Release: December 4, 2013 What: Forums on Health Care and Health Insurance Marketplace When: Thursday, December 5 at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Where: 10 a.m.—American Natio ...

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Medicaid Expansion Needs Your Help!

Medicaid Expansion Needs Your Help!

The Affordable Care Act’s Health Insurance Marketplace is open for enrollment, but some people will be left out in the cold if Virginia fails to expand Medicaid. Next week, ...

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Affordable Care Act: Newest Tool in Fight Against Breast Cancer

Affordable Care Act: Newest Tool in Fight Against Breast Cancer

By Alison Burns(10/08/13) RICHMOND, Va. - October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and this year's event marks a major shift for women's ability to access the he ...

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Tell Delegate Landes to Expand Va. Medicaid

Tell Delegate Landes to Expand Va. Medicaid

By Rebecca FosterPublished in The Daily Progress, November 7, 2013The federal government is subsidizing the bill to expand Medicaid; expanding Medicaid will actually cost the stat ...

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Marketplace Offers Affordable Health Coverage Across Virginia

Marketplace Offers Affordable Health Coverage Across Virginia

Leading up to open enrollment in the new market for private health insurance, which began yesterday and runs through March 31, 2014, there was a lot of unfounded speculation that ...

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Health Insurance Marketplace to Open Tomorrow

Health Insurance Marketplace to Open Tomorrow

It’s finally here. Tomorrow, October 1, the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) new Health Insurance Marketplace will open for enrollment for those who are uninsured or those ...

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