VA selects site for Staunton clinic
Staff Report 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Focus | Kaine offers advice to McDonnell on health care
Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell doesn’t think health-care reform with a public option is going to be “something that is going to help us in Virginia.” His predecessor recommends that he wait until Congress makes its final call on reform before painting himself into a corner. “What I would say – he’s going to make his own [...]
Group thanks Perriello for vote on health care
Americans United for Change is putting $35,000 behind a media buy thanking Fifth District Congressman Tom Perriello for his vote on health-care reform. “Virginia families are closer than ever having access to the quality, affordable health care they deserve thanks in no small part to Congressman Tom Perriello Representative Perriello stood up to the big [...]
What Virginia’s delegation had to say on health-care vote
The House of Representatives voted 220-215 late Saturday night to approve legislation that includes mandates to insurance providers and consumers and creates a public option for the provision of insurance coverage. One Republican, Joseph Cao of Louisiana, joined 219 Democrats in voting for the bill; 176 Republicans and 39 Democrats voted against the legislation, which [...]












