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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 ...

What’s at Stake for Women if the ACA is Repealed?

What’s at Stake for Women if the ACA is Repealed?

Featured on the Community Catalyst blog What’s at stake for women, as politicians in Washington pledge to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as soon as January? Just ask 38-yea ...

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Norfolk: Virginia Organizing to Hold Demonstration to Support Health Care for All People

Norfolk: Virginia Organizing to Hold Demonstration to Support Health Care for All People

What: Public demonstration to support the Affordable Care Act When: Thursday, January 12 at 12 noon Where: U.S. Senator Mark Warner’s Norfolk Office (101 West Main Street, Norfolk ...

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Will You Help Protect Health Care?

Will You Help Protect Health Care?

When health care is under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back! That’s just what we need your help with. Right now, Congress is poised to eliminate the subsidies for the Af ...

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Virginia Beach: Virginia Organizing to Hold Demonstration to Support Health Care for All People

Virginia Beach: Virginia Organizing to Hold Demonstration to Support Health Care for All People

What: Public demonstration in support of the Affordable Care Act When: Tuesday, January 3 at 12 noon Where: "Virginia Beach Fountain" near Senator Tim Kaine's office on Central an ...

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Harrisonburg: Virginia Organizing to Hold Demonstration to Support Health Care for All People

Harrisonburg: Virginia Organizing to Hold Demonstration to Support Health Care for All People

What: Public demonstration in support of the Affordable Care Act When: Tuesday, January 3 at 4:30 p.m. Where: Court Square, Harrisonburg, Va. Harrisonburg, Va.—The Harrisonburg Ch ...

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“Our Health Care is Under Attack, What Do We Do? Stand Up, Fight Back.”

“Our Health Care is Under Attack, What Do We Do? Stand Up, Fight Back.”

Listen to the audio of this story at WVTF Radio Word that the Affordable Care Act is under attack has its supporters in Virginia planning a series of protests around the state.  R ...

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Protecting and Improving Health Care

Protecting and Improving Health Care

In the coming Congressional session in the new year, it is expected that a lot of time will be spent on health care with a special focus on repealing and possibly replacing the Af ...

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Virginia Organizing to Screen ‘Love is Never Silent’ at Wayne Hills Deaf Fellowship

Virginia Organizing to Screen ‘Love is Never Silent’ at Wayne Hills Deaf Fellowship

What: Screening of Love is Never Silent to benefit Virginia Organizing When: Friday, September 30 (doors open at 5 p.m. and movie begins at 6 p.m.) Where: Wayne Hills Deaf Fellows ...

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Va.’s Bureau of Insurance advises against Anthem-Cigna merger

Va.’s Bureau of Insurance advises against Anthem-Cigna merger

Published on August 1 by the Richmond Times-Dispatch The State Corporation Commission’s Bureau of Insurance last week released a long-awaited analysis of the proposed merger betwe ...

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Study Confirms Broad Benefits from Medicaid Expansion

Study Confirms Broad Benefits from Medicaid Expansion

Published by Public News Service RICHMOND, Va. – States that expand Medicaid are seeing benefits across their health-care systems and beyond, according to new research. Study co-a ...

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