by MCDC | May 18, 2014 | Virginia
“Bad for consumers, bad for the next generation of businesses and bad for democracy.” The proposal “undercuts net neutrality and would favor wealthy corporations by allowing ‘pay to play’ rules to stifle small businesses.” The 28 House members who lobbied the Federal...
by MCDC | May 14, 2014 | GOP Shutdown, Health Care, Issues, Virginia
A group of recalcitrant Republicans in the Virginia House of Delegates have blocked Medicaid expansion at every opportunity. They are so determined to keep poor people from getting health care that they are preventing passage of a two-year budget for the state for the...
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...
