Howell, Putney address concerns over health-care reform
Pair cite state Medicaid-funding issue in letter to Webb, Warner
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House Speaker Bill Howell, R-Stafford, and House Appropriations Committee Chairman Lacey E. Putney, I-Bedford, today announced that they have written U.S. Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner to voice their “significant concern” about the impact that health-care reform bill making its way through the Senate could have on state finances.
After highlighting Virginia’s existing Medicaid financial challenges, Howell and Putney noted in their letter to the senators that because the Senate bill greatly expands Medicaid eligibility, “states will still be saddled with significant cost increases to meet these new obligations beyond the next five years.” Read more
The Rant | Hands off my health care
Video Essay by Chris Graham
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Limabaugh, Hannity, Beck, Boehner, DeMint, Chris Graham is calling you out. You want health care to be Obama’s “Waterloo”?
You guys must really hate America, not to mention us Americans who have been shouldering the burden of rising health-care costs as your buddies make a mint at our expense.
Enough with the BS. That’s today’s Rant. Read more
VA selects site for Staunton clinic
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The VA Mid-Atlantic Health Care Network and Salem VA Medical Center announced today that a site has been selected for the establishment of a Community Based Outpatient Clinic in Staunton.
The clinic will be located at 1002 Natasha Way in Staunton. VA will lease space within a building that will be constructed on the property. When completed, the facility will provide 7,500 net usable square feet of clinic space. Read more
A simple solution on health-care reform
Column by Robert Dean Banta
With all the details and sideline deal-making of the current health-care reform efforts it seems the answer of how to pay for health care must be much simpler than the tangled spaghetti Congress now twirls their forks around.
In imagining what I want out of health-care reform I have come up with the following idea, which does everything Congress and the president are now trying to do, but just through a much simpler plan. I will call my plan, The Banta Plan, after my last name and with more than a little fun poked at myself. Read more
Good Intentions + More Government Control ≠ Health-care Reform
Column by Norman Leahy
Primum non nocere, a Latin phrase meaning “First, do no harm,” is the first principle in the provision of health care. It should also be a first principle in health-care reform. Of course, this assumes the debate is truly about health care and not just another excuse to further expand the reach and control of government.
In an interview with Doc Thompson on WRVA radio in Richmond, Sen. Mark Warner assured listeners that he was deeply concerned about health-care reform and was eager to work on a plan that would make the system more efficient and equitable. Read more
Getting personal
Column by David Reynolds
May we get personal? I would like to talk about your body. Why not? Everybody else is doing it. Everybody is talking about your body. And mine.
I do not recall giving anyone permission. I know I did not. For I try to keep my clothes on. But it doesn’t matter these days. Washington does whatever it wants to strip us clean. And why not? Both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue think that they are playing with monopoly money. Maybe someday there will be a special commission to find out whose money it is. I can’t wait to find out.
Staying bought
Posted by afp on December 31, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Column by David Reynolds
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So keep the bubbly on ice. Don’t pop any corks. The parties are far from over. The Republicans and Democrats are fighting a life and death struggle. The outcome will not only determine your life, but, more importantly, as life is viewed in our Nation’s Capital, which party will whither away and die. Read more
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