Throughout the discussion of Medicaid expansion in Virginia, a particular theme keeps coming up: that the Governor may retain the ability to expand Medicaid coverage under Obamacare unilaterally, based on the executive branch’s existing authority to manage the state’s Medicaid plan, and leveraging language contained in the 2013 budget that set the stage for expansion via a special legislative commission (the Medicaid Innovation and Reform Commission, or MIRC).
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Four former Republican candidates for Lieutenant Governor teamed up to write a piece for The Hill, published earlier this afternoon. It deals with an issue central to the continued (or, renewed) prosperity of our country: reform of the federal tax code. Keeping taxes low, or…
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Susan Stimpson, the past Chairman of the Stafford County Board of Supervisors, and a candidate last year for Lt. Governor, has endorsed Bob Marshall for the 10th Congressional seat being vacated by Republican Frank Wolf.
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Politics in Virginia is often like professional wrestling: the fighting is fake and the outcome is fixed.
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This candidate’s too “establishment.” That candidate is too unknown. This candidate doesn’t have any money. Which candidate is just right? The talk on everyone’s lips at this past weekend’s Republican Party Advance was about who might be vying for the Republican nod for next year’s…
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The votes of just three people are all that stand in the way of the expansion of Medicaid in Virginia through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). These three members of the House of Delegates are on a special commission that is the…
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