by MCDC | Nov 26, 2013 | Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Ethics, Health Care, Virginia
ProgressVA today announced Speaker William Howell as the recipient of the organization’s 2013 “Turkey of the Year” award, in recognition of his staunch opposition to expanding Medicaid to up to 400,000 low-income Virginians. A program expansion would...
by MCDC | Nov 26, 2013 | Health Care, Issues, Virginia
via NPR Saying he is “alive for a reason and I will work for change,” Virginia state Sen. Creigh Deeds has told a Virginia news outlet that his life’s work now “is to make sure other families don’t have to go through what we are...
by MCDC | Nov 23, 2013 | Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Health Care, Satire, Video
by Mark Fiore After Obama announced his temporary fix to the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance companies were up in arms about how this would destabilize the market and cause people’s premiums to rise. Um, when was the last time the health...
by MCDC | Nov 21, 2013 | Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Ethics, Health Care
The Biggest Problem With Obamacare’s Rollout Is Being Caused Intentionally by Republicans by Joshua Holland The media have been buzzing with stories — many of them wildly exaggerated — of people facing higher premiums as a result of Obamacare. But there’s a story...
by MCDC | Nov 20, 2013 | Health Care, Virginia
via Blue Virginia The tragedy involving State Senator Creigh Deeds and his son Gus is horrible enough as it is. But then, we heard the infuriating news that Gus – who apparently had a history of struggling with mental illness – was “evaluated...
by MCDC | Nov 16, 2013 | Action Alerts, Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Health Care, Issues
We won’t go back. Republicans are opening new fronts in the war on healthcare, and rewriting their battle plans for the 2014 elections with a focus on opposition to the president’s reforms. But we won’t go back to letting insurance companies deny coverage to people...
