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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 ...

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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Waynesboro: Virginia Organizing to Celebrate 5th Anniversary of Affordable Care Act

Waynesboro: Virginia Organizing to Celebrate 5th Anniversary of Affordable Care Act

What: Affordable Care Act 5th Anniversary Celebration When: Tuesday, March 24 at 3:30 p.m. Where: Downtown Waynesboro (421 W Main Street, Waynesboro, VA 22980) Waynesboro, Va.—The ...

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The Two Americas of Health Care

The Two Americas of Health Care

On February 25, 2015, The New York Times posted a video on "How King v. Burwell, the latest Supreme Court challenge to the Affordable Care Act, could create two American health ca ...

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High Stakes

High Stakes

Originally posted by The Half Sheet on March 4, 2015. Quality, affordable health coverage for hundreds of thousands of Virginians is under attack yet again. Today, the Supreme Cou ...

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Protect Our Health Care

Protect Our Health Care

On March 4, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in King v. Burwell, which has the potential to undermine the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and cause millions of Americans to lo ...

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‘Massive resistance,’ again, in Virginia

‘Massive resistance,’ again, in Virginia

By The Washington Post Editorial Board February 7 SIXTY YEARS after Virginia waged a campaign of “massive resistance” against integrating its public schools, the state is once aga ...

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Take Action for Medicaid Expansion!

Take Action for Medicaid Expansion!

You might have seen the news yesterday that the Virginia General Assembly’s money committees (the Senate Finance Committee and House of Delegates Appropriations Committee) chose t ...

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Virginia Organizing Responds to Legislative Failure on Medicaid Expansion

Virginia Organizing Responds to Legislative Failure on Medicaid Expansion

Petersburg, Va.—Virginia Organizing Chairperson Sandra A. Cook issued the following statement in response to the General Assembly’s failure to include Medicaid expansion in the st ...

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Virginia Organizing Responds to Ridiculous House of Delegates Health Care Plan

Virginia Organizing Responds to Ridiculous House of Delegates Health Care Plan

Richmond, Va.—Virginia Organizing State Governing Board member Denise Smith responded to the Virginia House of Delegates proposal to include funding for “healthcare safety net” pr ...

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Casey: Franklin County woman caught in the health care coverage gap

Casey: Franklin County woman caught in the health care coverage gap

Originally Posted in The Roanoke Times on Wednesday, February 4, 2015. Amy Hedges, a working single mother of three who lives in Penhook, earns too little to qualify for a health- ...

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