by MCDC | Jan 12, 2015 | Action Alerts, Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Health Care, News
There’s not just one but TWO bills–one in the House and one in the Senate–that are trying to make Planned Parenthood health centers a distant memory. Senator David Vitter (R-LA) and over 80 GOP House members are leading the effort to attack Planned...
by MCDC | Jul 2, 2014 | Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Ethics, Health Care, Virginia
WASHINGTON POST EDITORIAL BOARD THE MORE circumstances emerge about the deal that flipped control of the Virginia state Senate to Republicans, the seamier it looks. And there’s plenty we still don’t know. To recap: The Senate was under Democratic control until early...
by MCDC | Jun 10, 2014 | Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Video, Virginia
Julian Walker, government reporter for the Virginian-Pilot, talks with Rachel Maddow about the apparently brokered resignation that will change control of the Virginia senate and breaks the news that the FBI has taken an interest in the matter. Waldo Jaquith...
by MCDC | Jun 9, 2014 | Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Virginia
“Republicans appear to have outmaneuvered Gov. Terry McAuliffe in a state budget standoff by persuading a Democratic senator to resign his seat, at least temporarily giving the GOP control of the chamber and possibly dooming the governor’s push to expand...
by MCDC | Apr 3, 2014 | Action Alerts, Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Health Care, Madison County, Virginia
While I can think of hundreds of thousands of people who will be hurt if we don’t “Close the Health Care Gap” with health insurance expansion under the Affordable Care Act, I cannot think of one person who will benefit if we turn it down. Unfortunately, between the...
by MCDC | Mar 7, 2014 | Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Health Care, Virginia
THE YEAR 2014 is only 66 days old, yet already Virginia has forfeited $330 million in federal funds — funds already paid to Uncle Sam by taxpayers — as a result of its delay in expanding Medicaid to cover up to 400,000 lower-income and uninsured Virginians. With each...
