About VAORG Admin

Dr. Lillis: Medicare, Our Deficit and Honesty

Dr. Lillis: Medicare, Our Deficit and Honesty

The following was originally posted on Progress Notes and was written by Dr. Chris Lillis, Fredericksburg Physician and Virginia Organizing Health Care Committee Member.By Dr. Chris LillisThe above gr ...

Read More »
Weston: Is Congress Listening on Social Security?

Weston: Is Congress Listening on Social Security?

On July 12, I joined a group of Virginia Organizing supporters, volunteers and board members on a trip to Washington DC to meet with staff from Senators Mark Warner’s and Jim Webb’s offices to discuss ...

Read More »
Thanks to Health Care Law: Birth Control Without Co-pay is Here!

Thanks to Health Care Law: Birth Control Without Co-pay is Here!

HHS announced it has adopted expert recommendations to require health insurers to cover contraception, along with many other preventive health services for women, without charging women co-payments. W ...

Read More »
Ehrenthal: Pendulum and the Pits

Ehrenthal: Pendulum and the Pits

Political competition between the executive branch and the legislative branch of our government is built into the framework of the checks and balance system created by the constitution. There have bee ...

Read More »
Virginia Organizing Response to Cantor’s “Putting People On Notice” of Retirement Security Cuts

Virginia Organizing Response to Cantor’s “Putting People On Notice” of Retirement Security Cuts

Rep. Cantor’s Announces He is Willing to Break Retirement Security Promises Cantor Calls on Constituents Under 55 to “Adjust” Their Lives in Preparation for Cuts to Medicare and ...

Read More »
Weston: Social Security Education at the National Night Out in Norfolk

Weston: Social Security Education at the National Night Out in Norfolk

On Tuesday night, August 2, people all over the United States participated in the 27th annual National Night Out. The nationwide event focuses on community awareness in crime prevention. I took to the ...

Read More »
Meet Alec

Meet Alec

Have you ever wondered how corporations seem to get everything they want from much of the legislation passed at the state level? Well, one shortcut corporate America has been using is to write that le ...

Read More »
Mitchell: America shouldn’t be a country where livelihoods are bargained for.

Mitchell: America shouldn’t be a country where livelihoods are bargained for.

With the average cost of a college education today being somewhere between $20,000 and $40,000 per year, imagine putting four children through college by yourself.  Even for a middle class family ...

Read More »
Sandra Cook on the Debt Ceiling: We Will Not Quietly Submit

Sandra Cook on the Debt Ceiling: We Will Not Quietly Submit

Frustrated. Furious. Fed up. I don’t know about you, but I am disgusted about what is going on in Washington with the debt ceiling. Like most Americans, I have followed the debt ceiling cir ...

Read More »
Virginia Main Street Alliance Update August 1, 2011

Virginia Main Street Alliance Update August 1, 2011

The Virginia Health Reform Initiative (VHRI) will be making some important decisions about health care reform at its September 9 meeting.  They will take public comments for about two weeks in la ...

Read More »
scroll to top