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From the Alliance

Let’s Get a Win, Virginia.

In my November 15th op-ed in the Richmond Times Dispatch, I suggested that we – the broader we – need to get a win in health care policy. A week later, Governor McAuliffe declared a Public Health Emergency on opioid addiction. This supported what the Virginia Consumer Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)[…]

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Virginia, We Have A Problem.

In the 1995 movie Apollo 13, Tom Hanks made “Houston, we have a problem…” a part of our cultural lexicon. Twenty-one years later Virginia’s Governor Terry McAuliffe announced that State Health Commissioner, Marissa Levine, declared on November 21st that the opioid addiction crisis in Virginia was a “Public Health Emergency.”[…]

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The Cost of Full Repeal of the Affordable Care Act

This study was prepared by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as “Obamacare,” includes a number of provisions to expand health care coverage, as well as several offsets that raise taxes and slow the growth of Medicare spending. According to our latest estimates,[…]

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