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 24, 2014 | Events, Virginia
by MCDC | Mar 10, 2014 | Health Care, Virginia
The suicide of Sen. Creigh Deeds’ son, Gus, stirred legislators this winter to piece together mental health reforms intended to avert similar tragedies. But they have done so without the benefit of a report from the state inspector general assessing why 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...
by MCDC | Mar 6, 2014 | Action Alerts, Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Health Care, Virginia
Beginning March 3, we’re putting up billboards—funded by small dollar donations from MoveOn members—in six states (Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Virginia). The billboards are designed to mimic current state tourism campaigns, and to call...
by MCDC | Mar 6, 2014 | Affordable Care Act/Obamacare, Health Care, Virginia
Of the 50 House districts with the highest percentage of Medicaid recipients, 32 are represented by Republicans, according to a study by three political scientists at the University of Mary Washington. Those legislators are willing to forgo the federal largesse rather...
