Eric Payne: The broken logic of Virginia’s Medicaid ‘double fail’ policy
After decades spent fixing computer systems, I’ve learned one basic rule: when a system keeps producing the opposite result you want, you don’t keep tweaking it.
After decades spent fixing computer systems, I’ve learned one basic rule: when a system keeps producing the opposite result you want, you don’t keep tweaking it.
Virginia will be among the states taking the biggest hit from the Medicaid cuts in the Big Ugly Bill that Donald Trump signed on July 4.
Democrats in Augusta County, Staunton and Waynesboro will mark the fifth anniversary of the passing of civil-rights icon John Lewis by following his advice to “get into good trouble.”
After spending months firing federal workers, slashing public services, gutting healthcare, and raising taxes for everyone but the rich, our country just wasted hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on a detention center in Florida.
Ben Cline seems pleased with himself that, as he posted to Twitter on Wednesday, “not a single taxpayer dollar is going to Planned Parenthood” thanks to the Big Ugly Bill that he voted for last week.

I have had it up to, wherever, with Virginia Democrats telling me, several times a day, everything that Winsome Earle-Sears is doing wrong.
Congressional passage of Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” provides the latest evidence that human greed, despite its primitive nature, remains alive and well.
The Augusta Regional Dental Clinic expansion has allowed the Fishersville nonprofit to welcome approximately 2,000 new patients.
The House just voted 218-214 to send the Big, Ugly Bill to the Oval Office, where Donald Trump will use his sharpie to get it on the books on Friday, and Ben Cline, among others in the MAGAsphere, couldn’t be happier.
Augusta Health is sounding the alarm on how the trillion dollars in Medicaid cuts in the Big, Ugly Bill that the U.S. Senate just passed will affect its operations.
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