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 ...
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Crunch time on the debt ceiling
It’s crunch time in Washington to raise the debt ceiling. Even Wall Street executives say a failure to avoid a default crisis would have a "severe and long-lasting impa ...
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Ehrenthal: Social Security Follies
There is a serious movement in Congress to raise the age of eligibility for receiving Social Security. Social Securiy benefits are solvent for thirty years and then after that poi ...
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 ...
Read More »The blame game
From Moveon.org...This infographic/ Facebook status says it all!"Most of the things that spread fast on Facebook are pretty silly—videos of cats and the like. But recen ...
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Reducing poverty, reduces infant mortality
The following post if from our friends at Tax Credits for Working Families.Study Finds State EITCs Improve Mothers’ Health and BehaviorLast week, we looked at two studies th ...
Read More »Where does the AARP stand on cutting Social Security?
The Wall Street Journalreported June 17 that AARP has changed its position to now support Social Security benefit cuts. AARP denies it has changed positions, but says its ba ...
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Ehrenthal: Southern Fried America
Since I became interested in history and specifically the “Civil War”, I tried to understand why tens of thousands of poor whites supported the “rebel” cause. Most Southerners own ...
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