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 the property. When completed, the facility will provide 7,500 net usable square feet of clinic space. Continue reading “VA selects site for Staunton clinic” »
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. Continue reading “A simple solution on health-care reform” »
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. Continue reading “Good Intentions + More Government Control ≠ Health-care Reform” »
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.
Continue reading “Getting personal” »
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 decisions – I think he should see the final bill before he makes his decision,” Gov. Tim Kaine told reporters after an event in Harrisonburg Monday afternoon. “Because to say in advance, I’m going to opt out regardless – nobody would say that Medicare, for example, nobody would opt out of Medicare, which is a public option, a public product that serves our seniors, nobody would choose to opt out of the VA system, a public service that serves our veterans. Continue reading “Focus | Kaine offers advice to McDonnell on health care” »
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 health insurance industry and stood alongside the AARP, the American Medical Association and the clear majority of the American people with his support for the Affordable Health Care for America Act,” said Tom McMahon, the organization’s acting executive director. Continue reading “Group thanks Perriello for vote on health care” »
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 next goes to the Senate. It can be expected that whatever health-care bill makes it to the Senate floor will have some differences in language with the House version, so if and when the Senate were to pass similar legislation, it would be up to a House-Senate conference committee to work out differences and present a compromise bill for additional consideration by the two legislative chambers.
Which is to say, it’s not over yet, not by a long shot.
But the Saturday vote was historic nonetheless, and no matter as to what side of the political or ideological aisle you happen to be on.
We collected on-the-record comments from Virginia’s congressional delegation on the legislation from yesterday and late last night. Here’s what your congressional delegation had to say. Continue reading “What Virginia’s delegation had to say on health-care vote” »
The Rant | Hands off my health care
Posted by afp on December 16, 2009 · 3 Comments
Video Essay by Chris Graham
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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. Continue reading “The Rant | Hands off my health care” »
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