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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 ...

Over $16 Million Heading to Virginia Community Health Centers

Over $16 Million Heading to Virginia Community Health Centers

Public News Service-VA http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/article/26196-1 Join the discussion: facebook.com/PublicNewsService  Twitter: @pns_news  ...

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Day Three: Linda, Eric & Ted—> 3 Great Reasons to Protect the ACA

Day Three: Linda, Eric & Ted—> 3 Great Reasons to Protect the ACA

This morning at the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, three Virginians helped by Medicaid addressed a crowd on the need to protect the Medicaid expansion in the Affordable Care Act ...

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Day Two: Health Care is Not Broccoli

Day Two: Health Care is Not Broccoli

When you think of our broken health insurance system, do you think of broccoli?  No? Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, and those who are trying to block the the Affordabl ...

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Day Two: Virginians Know That Health Care is Not Broccoli

Day Two: Virginians Know That Health Care is Not Broccoli

Virginians Call On Supreme Court to Uphold the Law: Health Care is Not Broccoli Virginians Who Have No Health Insurance, Pay too Much for Health Insurance or Sell Health Insu ...

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Day One of the Supreme Court Hearings: What’s at Stake

Day One of the Supreme Court Hearings: What’s at Stake

Today the United States Supreme Court began hearing arguments on the challenges to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in what is being called one of the most important cases in the his ...

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The Affordable Care in Virginia: Get the Facts

The Affordable Care in Virginia: Get the Facts

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the new health care law that provides benefits like consumer protections against insurance companies, free cancer screenings to seniors in Medicar ...

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Linda’s Story: Celebrating the Affordable Care Act

Linda’s Story: Celebrating the Affordable Care Act

Today marks the second anniversary of the Affordable Care Act and there is a lot to celebrate! The health care law has accomplished a lot in the last two years and is already help ...

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Storify: The Health Care Law in Virginia, 2 Years of Progress

Storify: The Health Care Law in Virginia, 2 Years of Progress

Tweet Chat (3/20/12) on the 2 year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act in Virginia: how it has helped the state, what's at stake with the Supreme Court decision and why Vir ...

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Virginia Organizing Upcoming Affordable Care Act Two Year Anniversary Events

Virginia Organizing Upcoming Affordable Care Act Two Year Anniversary Events

In the midst of two years of heated debate over the health care law, we cannot lose sight of problems that existed with our broken health care system that drove us to seek reform ...

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Virginia Organizing Upcoming Affordable Care Act Two Year Anniversary Events

Virginia Organizing Upcoming Affordable Care Act Two Year Anniversary Events

In the midst of two years of heated debate over the health care law, we cannot lose sight of problems that existed with our broken health care system that drove us to seek reform ...

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