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Ken Plum: Affordable health care

A friend of mine of moderate political persuasion said to me recently that while he felt that details of managing the federal Affordable Health Care Act were issues of governance that should continue to be debated and improved, he also felt that passage of the Act was a moral issue that should not be reversed

Posted July 25, 2012  

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Andy Schmookler: Goodlatte misleads on ObamaCare

Bob Goodlatte sent a grossly misleading email to Sixth District voters following the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

Posted July 11, 2012  

Laura McDowell White: Health-care reform saved my small auto shop

According to national news reports, Mary Brown, the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit challenging the health reform law and owner of a small auto shop in Florida, has had to close her business and file for bankruptcy due to thousands of dollars in unpaid medical bills. My husband and I own a small auto shop [...]

Posted March 30, 2012  

Politics marks the second anniversary of health-care reform

The health-care reform law that has come to define the first term of President Barack Obama is marking its second anniversary today, and as might be expected, the occasion is serving as fodder for political posturing from the two sides of the political aisle. “Today, two years after we passed health care reform, more young [...]

Posted March 23, 2012  

Consumer groups comment on GA’s health exchange gamble

On Wednesday the Senate special subcommittee on health insurance failed to recommend any health exchange bills despite previously acknowledging the irresponsibility of waiting and denying months of work from the governor’s hand-selected health reform panel. Subcommittee Chair Sen. Jeffrey McWaters moved to wait until after the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on the constitutionality of [...]

Posted February 8, 2012  

Supreme Court to hear challenge to health-care reform

The United States Supreme Court said today that it will hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – the health-care reform law passed by Congress in 2010. Virginia filed one of the suits that made their way up the federal system with Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and Gov. Bob [...]

Posted November 14, 2011  

Ken Plum: Obamacare in Virginia

President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Obamacare, into law on March 23, 2010. On the same day Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli filed the first lawsuit in the nation to challenge the provision in ACA that most individuals be mandated to have health insurance. Eastern District Federal Judge Henry Hudson ruled in [...]

Posted June 16, 2011  

McDonnell to Obama: Ease health-care mandates

Gov. Bob McDonnell sent a letter on Thursday to President Barak Obama and leaders in the Congress calling upon them to repeal provisions in the federal healthcare stimulus program that require states to maintain Medicaid eligibility levels at previous rates. The Maintenance of Eligibility provisions restrict Virginia and other states from reducing the number of [...]

Posted May 7, 2011  

The AFP on WREL: Drawing the line(s)

AFP editor Chris Graham talks Virginia news with WREL-1450AM’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan.” The segment begins with a review of the surprise news from late Thursday that has Gov. Bob McDonnell and the Virginia General Assembly apparently in agreement on legislative redistricting for 2011. Chris breaks down the deal in the Senate that got all [...]

Posted April 29, 2011  

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