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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 ...

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Study on Cost of Medicaid Expansion

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Study on Cost of Medicaid Expansion

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities released a report last week on the cost to states to implement the Medicaid expansion. Portions of the report are below, but you can rea ...

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Expert: Health Insurance Mandate Needed — Only 1-Percent will Pay Penalty

Expert: Health Insurance Mandate Needed — Only 1-Percent will Pay Penalty

Ray Scher, Virginia Organizing Board member, served as our spokesperson for a story on health care implementation. The story is below:July 12, 2012http://www.publicnewsservice.org ...

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Tell Governor McDonnell to Expand Medicaid in Virginia!

Tell Governor McDonnell to Expand Medicaid in Virginia!

 Governor Bob McDonnell has done it again. He's decided that playing politics is more important that the health and lives of hundreds of thousands of Virginians. On July ...

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Seriously?

Seriously?

This week, leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives, including Rep. Eric Cantor, again brought forth legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act and today, 244 U.S. Repre ...

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Supporters cheer victory for health care in Danville

Supporters cheer victory for health care in Danville

Tiffany HollandJune 29, 2012http://www2.godanriver.com/news/2012/jun/29/supporters-cheer-victory-health-care-danville-ar-2023997/Drivers downtown during the Friday lunch hour rush ...

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Good News From the Supreme Court!

Good News From the Supreme Court!

 June 28, 2012 Today, Americans won! We won affordable access to health care and we could not have won this fight without the help of Virginia Organizing supporters and ...

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Countdown to Affordable Care Act Decision: HCAN Discusses Mandate Hype

Countdown to Affordable Care Act Decision: HCAN Discusses Mandate Hype

Ethan Rome, Executive Director of Health Care for America NowJune 25, 2012http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ethan-rome/obamacare-and-the-mandate_b_1624999.htmlDuring the two years Hea ...

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What happens to unemployed, young adults if Affordable Care Act goes away?

What happens to unemployed, young adults if Affordable Care Act goes away?

http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/2012/losing-obamacare-cost-unemployed-young-adults/ With the Supreme Court set to rule on the Affordable Care Act, the entire law could we ...

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Activists Await High Court’s Health Care Decision

Activists Await High Court’s Health Care Decision

Mary DunleavyJune 23, 2012http://www.nbc29.com/story/18864904/activists-await-high-courts-health-care-decision (visit link to watch member Dell Eriwn and Executive DIrector Joe Sz ...

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VMSA UPDATE #32   May 1, 2012

VMSA UPDATE #32 May 1, 2012

WHAT’S NEXT FOR HEALTH CARE REFORM:  Many people are waiting for the Supreme Court ruling on health care reform, which is expected in late June.  It is good to see ...

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