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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 ...

Coming this fall: New opportunities for health care for thousands of Virginians

Coming this fall: New opportunities for health care for thousands of Virginians

 By Massie Whorley, The Commonwealth Institutehttp://thehalfsheet.org/?utm_source=The+Half+Sheet_exchange_credits&utm_campaign=half+sheet+8&utm_medium=emailStarting O ...

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Ehrenthal: My Experience Navigating the Health Care System

Ehrenthal: My Experience Navigating the Health Care System

By Ken Ehrenthal Recently, my wife gave me a card. It looked like a credit card. She told me that it was a card that I should use whenever I had to pay a doctor or purchase some p ...

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Medicaid Expansion Update

Medicaid Expansion Update

 Earlier this week, Governor Bob McDonnell released his amendments to the biennium budget, which added minimum conditions that must be met for the Medicaid Innovation and Ref ...

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Third Anniversary of Affordable Care Act Showcases Competing Visions of America

Third Anniversary of Affordable Care Act Showcases Competing Visions of America

March 23, 2013From one of Virginia Organizing's national partners, Health Care for America Now (HCAN):Today marks the third anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, a landmark ...

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Medicaid Expansion Needs Your Help!

Medicaid Expansion Needs Your Help!

 Right now, Governor Bob McDonnell has Medicaid expansion in his hands. He has the ability to let the budget amendments, including the one that creates a path to Medicaid exp ...

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Questions About Health Care and Exchanges?

Questions About Health Care and Exchanges?

What are exchanges? How does the health care law benefit me? Where do I find information?As we prepare to move to health exchanges starting in 2014, many people are asking these q ...

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Virginia lawmakers carefully consider Medicaid growth

Virginia lawmakers carefully consider Medicaid growth

 LAURENCE HAMMACK | 981-3239Wednesday, February 27, 2013http://www.roanoke.com/news/politics/1729697-12/virginia-lawmakers-carefully-consider-medicaid-growth.htmlIf Medicaid ...

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A Note From Virginia Organizing Chairperson

A Note From Virginia Organizing Chairperson

 Congratulations! We are one step closer to Medicaid expansion! Thanks to you and thousands of other folks like you around Virginia, we helped move the General Assembly to do ...

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Last Chance to Act on Medicaid Expansion!

Last Chance to Act on Medicaid Expansion!

February 19, 2013IT'S YOUR LAST CHANCE TO AFFECT THE DECISION OF THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ON MEDICAID EXPANSION! The deadline for the Conference Committee report has been ...

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A Valentine for Medicaid Expansion: Action Alert!

A Valentine for Medicaid Expansion: Action Alert!

February 14, 2013 "Roses are red,"Begins poems today.We need Medicaid expansion,Virginia cannot delay!  The Virginia Senate and House of Delegates have na ...

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