400,000 Working or Disabled Virginians Are Now Eligible for Insurance and Access to Life-Saving Care Through Medicaid Expansion On May 30th, after years of debate, the Virginia Senate voted to expand Medicaid and pass an annual budget. “Medicaid expansion is a good deal for Virginians and for the Commonwealth,” said Progress Virginia’s executive director Anna Scholl. “It […]
Month: May 2018
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Progress Virginia Applauds Northam Veto Of Fake Redistricting Bill
Legislation Failed to Reign in Gerrymandering Abuses Invalidated by Federal Court Today we applaud Governor Ralph Northam’s veto of HB1598 and SB106! The bills, sponsored by Delegate Chris Jones and Senator David Sutterlein, purported to reform Virginia’s redistricting while failing to make any substantive changes to curtail politicians’ ability to rig elections. “Voters should choose […]
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Progress Virginia Strongly Condemns Trump-Pence Administration Restrictions on Health Care, Birth Control
Trump-Pence domestic gag rule is awful and will deny Virginia women basic information about — and access to — reproductive health care services Not content with skyrocketing premiums that resulted from intentional policy sabotage, the Trump-Pence administration announced today that they will target women’s basic rights and undermine sound medical advice by issuing a so-called Domestic […]
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State Senate Leaves Town (AGAIN) Without Doing Actual Work
Tommy Norment Wasting Virginians Time And Money Richmond, VA–Two months after adjourning Sine Die without a budget or approval for Medicaid Expansion and 4 weeks after the House of Delegates acted in special session to pass both, the state Senate returned to Richmond for two days this week to do…nothing. In a floor session and two days of Senate Finance […]
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Vickie is Our Hero
Hero or Zero? May 3 Welcome to Progress Virginia’s Hero or Zero, a weekly, unapologetically progressive take on this week’s heroes and zeros in Virginia politics. Check out this space every Friday, and Tweet us or post to our Facebook to nominate your own heroes and zeros. Like this? Please share! HERO: Vickie is our […]
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Eleven People in the Coverage Gap Die Every Week in Virginia
While Republican senators in Virginia’s General Assembly are pulling out all the stops to prevent a clean Medicaid expansion, eleven people are dying every week in the Commonwealth because they don’t have health insurance. Virginians are dying from a whole spectrum of preventable, treatable, and curable illnesses because a group of Republican senators don’t believe […]