Richmond, Virginia—Today marks the three-year anniversary of the passage of Medicaid expansion in the Commonwealth. Virginia’s expansion of Medicaid has broadened health coverage to include an additional 494,000 people across the Commonwealth. This commitment to better healthcare and outcomes is a step toward the ultimate goal of ensuring that everyone in Virginia, regardless of income […]
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Advocates Disappointed Governor Northam Won’t Use Rainy Day Funds To Support Hardworking Families in Pandemic
Richmond, Virginia—Between a pandemic that is causing families to struggle with massive unemployment, a child care crisis, police brutalizing protesters in the streets on a near-nightly basis all summer long, and reckoning with our racist past, it is not just raining in Virginia, it’s pouring. But this morning, Governor Ralph Northam unveiled a budget that […]
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ICYMI: Trump Recklessly Vows to End Health Insurance Coverage Through Affordable Care Act Despite Pandemic
Washington, DC—Despite the fact that millions of Americans have lost their jobs and their health insurance coverage as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, President Trump announced yesterday that he still plans to completely gut the Affordable Care Act. The Trump administration has no plan to ensure that the millions of hardworking families who will […]
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Why Does A Health Care Professional Vote to Keep You From Getting Your Health Care?
Republican state Senator Siobhan Dunnavant is running scared in her re-election campaign. She’s flat out lying in TV ads about her voting record on health care, saying she’s fighting for “affordable, quality health care” for Virginians. Dunnavant should be nervous–her Henrico County district is leaning more Democratic and health care is important to her constituents. […]
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One Year Ago We Expanded Medicaid–Now Go Vote!
It seems like yesterday we achieved a major victory here in Virginia. After years of debate and roadblocks, the Virginia state Senate voted on May 30, 2018 to expand access to affordable healthcare to 400,000 Virginians. It took six years of tireless advocacy from activists, community members, unions, and grassroots organizations, but on that day […]
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“I Am One of Those Virginians Who Needed Medicaid Expansion”
A huge wave of relief washed over Evie, a 27-year-old store clerk and community college student, when she found out that she was automatically enrolled in Virginia’s Medicaid program in November. To her, this was more than a policy change, it was personal. “I am one of those Virginians who needed Medicaid expansion,” Evie said. […]
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Can We Get A Heck Yeah For Healthcare?
I don’t know about you, but I’m still basking in the glow of numerous midterm victories in Virginia. It is amazing how many people came up to me after the election simply saying, “Can you believe how much we won??” Yes, I can. And chances are, you can too because you know how many of […]
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If Virginians Want Affordable Healthcare, Why Does Dave Brat Vote To Take It Away?
There’s no doubt about it. Virginians want affordable healthcare. Residents of the Commonwealth made their voices heard during the 2017 General Assembly elections by voting for candidates who promised to bring Medicaid expansion to the state. Those candidates delivered on their campaign promise when Governor Northam signed the budget in June, giving access to affordable […]
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Three Reasons Why Brett Kavanaugh Is Wrong for the Supreme Court
In July, Trump announced his nominee for the Supreme Court following Justice Kennedy’s retirement. We all knew the nominee would be bad, but the nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, is worse than we thought. Here are the top three reasons he would take us backwards for the next 40 years and why we can’t let him get […]
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Eleven People in the Coverage Gap Die Every Week in Virginia
While Republican senators in Virginia’s General Assembly are pulling out all the stops to prevent a clean Medicaid expansion, eleven people are dying every week in the Commonwealth because they don’t have health insurance. Virginians are dying from a whole spectrum of preventable, treatable, and curable illnesses because a group of Republican senators don’t believe […]