Medicare Under Attack on 45th Anniversary
Today, on the 45th anniversary of the implementation of Medicare, it's under attack by politicians who want to gut it to pay for more tax breaks for millionaires and big corpo ...
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Cincinnati U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds health care law; Dr. Fever celebrates decision.
Today the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled to uphold the health care law. Virginia Organizing celebrates this victory and hopes for a similar ruling from Virg ...
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Recommendations for Setting Up Virginia’s Health Benefits Exchange
This summer the Virginia Health Reform Initiative (VHRI) is busy making decisions that could affect Virginians’ access to affordable health insurance for decades. The ...
Read More »Eric Cantor takes his toys and goes home
Yesterday, instead of representing the people of Virginia, Eric Cantor stood up for his favorite constituents: millionaires. Representative Cantor refused to show up to budget neg ...
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Dr. Lillis: Low Hanging Fruit
The following was originally posted on Progress Notes and was written by Dr. Chris Lillis, Fredericksburg Physician and Virginia Organizing Health Care Committee Member.By Dr. Chr ...
Read More »Ten Things You Should Know About Medicaid In Virginia
Our elected leaders in Washington are continuing the discussion of intense budget cuts ahead of the August 2 deadline to raise the debt ceiling. Virginia members of Congress are k ...
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Dr. Lillis: What Would You Cut?
What Would You Cut?The following was originally posted on Progress Notes and was written by Dr. Chris Lillis, Fredericksburg Physician and Virginia Organizing Health Care Committe ...
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HCAN Partners Go to Four Health Insurance Co. Shareholder Meetings to Demand Transparency, Accountability
With for-profit health insurers secretly spending millions to buy GOP support for anti-consumer legislation, activists demanded transparency and accountability at the companies ...
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No premiums for politics…Why we were kicked out of Coventry.
Yesterday morning a dozen Virginia community activists rolled out of bed very early to drop by the Ritz Carlton on their way to work. All before 9:00 am, this group was thrown out ...
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Help us hold big insurance accountable in McClean this Thursday!!
We need your help to keep holding big insurance companies accountable in Virginia! THIS Thursday (May 19) at 8am Coventry Health Care (the nation's 6th largest insurer) ...
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