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How the Health Care Law Helps You!
Learn about the new health care law and tell your friends and family!Key Benefits for Virginia overview read more
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Health Care Overview
Contact: Brian JohnsWe support the expansion of the Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act to serve over 400,000 Virginians from low-income working families that currently have no health care...
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Early Signs Medicaid Expansion Works Where It's Tried
Slide Show off Dan Heyman, Public News Service-VA(08/04/14) RICHMOND, Va. – Signs suggest Medicaid expansion is working much as promised where it's been tried. The numbers are still coming in, but...
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What's the Plan, General Assembly?
Slide Show off This week, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe unveiled a plan called “A Healthy Virginia” to expand access to health care as much as his executive authority allows. The plan calls for...
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Do it for Edna and Dorothy!
Slide Show off Today, Virginia Organizing helped two women from Southwest Virginia share their personal stories about the lack of access to health care. Dorothy wrote a statement that was read (a...
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The Medicaid Debate: “Tell Them These are Real People”
Slide Show off Posted by the Public News Service on September 17, 2014by Dan HeymanRICHMOND, Va. - As Virginia lawmakers gather to consider Medicaid expansion, some of those who would benefit are...
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Hospitals and Clinics Feel the Pain of Medicaid Expansion Politics
Slide Show off By LeeAnn Hall, Published September 17, 2014 by Huffington PostIs your state refusing to expand Medicaid? If so, it could be putting your health at risk, whether you'd qualify for...
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More West Virginians Than Virginians Now Have Health Coverage
Slide Show off Originally posted on September 29, 2014 by the Public News Serviceby Dan HeymanRICHMOND, Va. - West Virginia has passed Virginia for the percentage of citizens with health coverage,...
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Virginia Small Business Update # 84
Slide Show off Elections will be on Tuesday, November 4. A new law requires every voter in Virginia to have a photo ID. A Virginia Driver’s License is an acceptable form of ID. An employer issued...
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The Disaster That Didn’t Happen: Health Reform’s Excellent Cost Numbers
Slide Show off Originially Posted by The Public News Service on October 22, 2014by Dan HeymanRICHMOND, Va. – Not long ago, the airwaves were filled with predictions that health-care reform would be a...
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Efforts to Connect More Virginia Children to Health Coverage Stalling
Slide Show off Originally posted on The Public News Service on November 6, 2014.by Dan HeymanRICHMOND, Va. - A new report demonstrates efforts to connect more children to health care coverage seems to...
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FAMIS: A SUCCESS STORY THAT’S IN JEOPARDY
Slide Show off Originally posted by Voices for Virginia's Children on November 6, 2014. FAMIS, the public health insurance program for low-income families, along with Medicaid, has helped reduce the...
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Fighting for Veterans
Slide Show off Published by The Commonwealth Institute on November 10, 2014By Massey WhorleyVirginia is home to a large share of our nation’s active-duty military personnel and veterans. And lawmakers...
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Supporting Virginia Veterans
Slide Show off Today is Veterans’ Day—a time to honor those who have served in America’s armed forces and defend the freedoms our nation enjoys. But Virginia is not honoring all veterans.According to...
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Talking Turkey: Medicaid Expansion
Slide Show off If your family is anything like mine, your Thanksgiving dinner might be served with a lot of opinions on politics—especially on hot topics like Medicaid expansion. We’re in the middle...
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