Health Care
Building Opportunity: A Toolkit for Virginia’s Future
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ACA Continues to Increase Health Coverage, Yet Other States Leap Ahead of Virginia
It’s time for Virginia to expand Medicaid so that our people can get the care they need to go to work, take care of their kids, and be healthy, productive members of their community.
Building Opportunity: A Toolkit for Virginia’s Future
We all want to believe that if we meet our obligations and if we work hard at the things we choose to do that we’ll be rewarded with opportunities to get ahead.
Health Care Update: Time to Move Forward, Come Together, and Shore Up the Marketplace
With the recent collapse of efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act in the Senate, the time seems ripe for both our Congressional representatives and state legislators to come together to strengthen our insurance marketplace.
Top 5 Reasons Why the AHCA Would Harm Rural Hospitals and Communities
Rural hospitals in Medicaid expansion states have seen their profits grow more than urban hospitals.
Bad Medicine: AHCA would be a bitter pill for rural communities
With virtually no upside for the vast majority of rural residents, the AHCA is a dangerous deal for some of our state’s most challenged communities.
Bad Medicine: AHCA provisions would be hard for older adults to swallow
Key provisions of the Affordable Care Act benefit older adults, increasing access to care, quality of care, and cost. It isn’t perfect, particularly in states like Virginia where Medicaid has not been expanded. But the proposed “cures” of the American Health Care Act are worse than the supposed ills of the ACA.
Smoke and Mirrors Arguments: Debunking the Idea that Free Clinics are Substitutes for Medicaid Expansion
While free clinics do an outstanding job providing vital services to 75,000 low-income uninsured adults each year in Virginia, Medicaid expansion could provide continual coverage to hundreds of thousands of low-income Virginians
Virginia lawmakers have a chance to take a big step in addressing the state’s opioid crisis on Wednesday. It’s called Medicaid.
Not expanding Medicaid is shutting the door on the most expansive and effective way to substantially address and begin curbing this epidemic.