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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 ...

Group: Medicaid expansion will add 30,000 jobs and billions to Va. economy

Group: Medicaid expansion will add 30,000 jobs and billions to Va. economy

January 11, 2013Monique Coppola, Public News Service-VAhttp://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/article/30172-1(01/11/13) RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia Governor Bob McDonnel ...

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Study: Va. would pay more if Medicaid not expanded

Study: Va. would pay more if Medicaid not expanded

January 5, 2013By Michael Martzhttp://www.timesdispatch.com/news/study-va-would-pay-more-if-medicaid-not-expanded/article_d7d716b0-8888-589e-9e09-66a9a40655df.htmlA new economic s ...

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A Report from Virginia’s Internal Medicine Physician Specialists: How Will the Medicaid Expansion Benefit Virginia?

A Report from Virginia’s Internal Medicine Physician Specialists: How Will the Medicaid Expansion Benefit Virginia?

The following is a report from the Virginia Chapter of the American College of Physicians on why Medicaid expansion is vital to Virginia residents. The full report with references ...

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We Can’t Afford to NOT Expand Medicaid!

We Can’t Afford to NOT Expand Medicaid!

This week, one of the Nuns on the Bus, Sister Mary Ellen Lacy, came to Fredericksburg and Richmond to discuss the importance of Medicaid expansion in Virginia. This is timely ...

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Medicaid Expansion Covers Millions at “Modest” Cost to States: Report

Medicaid Expansion Covers Millions at “Modest” Cost to States: Report

By Jeffrey YoungNovember 26, 2012http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/26/medicaid-expansion_n_2191912.htmlExpanding Medicaid health benefits to everyone eligible under President ...

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Time Ticking for State’s Decision About Affordable Care Act

Time Ticking for State’s Decision About Affordable Care Act

By Monique CoppolaNovember 13, 2012http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/article/29213-1RICHMOND, Va. - With the election now behind us, it's time for Virginia a ...

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Life Can Be Scary Without Medicaid

Life Can Be Scary Without Medicaid

Help us tell Senators Webb and Warner not to bargain with the health of Virginians! If you think ghosts and ghouls are scary, you haven't heard of some plans to cut Medic ...

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Doctors for America: Patients Over Politics Bus Tour

Doctors for America: Patients Over Politics Bus Tour

Doctors for America, a grassroots organization of physicians and medical students and partner of Virginia Organizing, is embarking on its most ambitious project to date next week. ...

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Medicaid Expansion Rejected By Governors Who Say Earning $11,000 Is Too Much

Medicaid Expansion Rejected By Governors Who Say Earning $11,000 Is Too Much

 By Carla Johnson and Kelli KennedyAugust 14, 2012Full story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/14/medicaid-expansion-gop-governors_n_1775973.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg0 ...

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August 1: Women’s Health Care Package Implementation Is Cause for Celebration and Caution

August 1: Women’s Health Care Package Implementation Is Cause for Celebration and Caution

By Nancy KaufmanJuly 31, 2012 August 1 is a great day for women. It marks the roll-out of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) package of preventive and diagnostic care that must no ...

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