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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 ...

Opinion/Letter: Medicaid expansion benefits Va.

Opinion/Letter: Medicaid expansion benefits Va.

Originally posted in the Daily Progress on April 14, 2015. Re: “Bell, Toscano speak on ABC, Medicaid expansion, sexual assault…” (April 8, The Daily Progress online) about Del. Ro ...

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Fredericksburg Chapter of Virginia Organizing to Celebrate the ACA, Call on State Legislators to Expand Medicaid

Fredericksburg Chapter of Virginia Organizing to Celebrate the ACA, Call on State Legislators to Expand Medicaid

What: Gathering to celebrate the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and call on legislators to expand Medicaid When: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 5:30 p.m. Where: Fredericksburg Christian H ...

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Protesters Rally for Medicaid Expansion

Protesters Rally for Medicaid Expansion

Originally posted on Newsplex.com on April 8, 2015. ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VA (NEWSPLEX) -- About a dozen people came together Wednesday to push for Medicaid expansion in the state of ...

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Help Expand Medicaid in Virginia!

Help Expand Medicaid in Virginia!

On March 23, we celebrated five years of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)! We know there are a lot of things the ACA has done to help Virginians—in fact, we created a top ten list of ...

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ACA marks fifth anniversary

ACA marks fifth anniversary

Originally posted by The Martinsville Bulletin on April 1, 2015. Last month marked the five-year anniversary of the signing of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and according to repr ...

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Virginia Organizing to Celebrate 5 Years of ACA, Release Report Showing We Still Need Medicaid Expansion

Virginia Organizing to Celebrate 5 Years of ACA, Release Report Showing We Still Need Medicaid Expansion

What: Virginia Organizing Rally and Report Release When: Wednesday, April 1 at 4:30 p.m. Where: 401 McIntire Road, Charlottesville, VA 22902 Charlottesville, Va.—The Charlottesvil ...

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#ACAWorks: Adam and Ro’s Story

#ACAWorks: Adam and Ro’s Story

Ro is a single mom that falls in the Medicaid coverage gap because Virginia legislators refuse to expand Medicaid. ...

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#ACAWorks: Sheila’s Story

#ACAWorks: Sheila’s Story

Sheila of Norfolk shares why she supports the ACA (hint: because it's working)! ...

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Virginia Organizing Celebrates 5th Anniversary of Affordable Care Act Across the Commonwealth

Virginia Organizing Celebrates 5th Anniversary of Affordable Care Act Across the Commonwealth

Richmond, Va.—Virginia Organizing Chapters in Virginia Beach, Richmond, Waynesboro, and Danville celebrated the 5th anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( ...

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Five-Year Plans: Celebrating the Affordable Care Act and Looking Forward

Five-Year Plans: Celebrating the Affordable Care Act and Looking Forward

By Dottie Holtz The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has accomplished what 100 years of health care reform could not—for the first time, we have the lowest number ...

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