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- February 3, 2023
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U.S. Health Care Reaches Record Lows After Decade of Obamacare

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A new Gallup poll finds Americans’ satisfaction with the nation’s health care system, which had been steadily rising until 2010, has sunk to record lows over the last 12 years under Obamacare. “For the first time in Gallup’s two-decade trend, less than half of Americans are complimentary about the quality of U.S. healthcare, with 48% […]

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- July 29, 2022
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Youngkin Donates Blood Amid Donation Drop

As the American Red Cross locations across Virginia have reported a drop in blood donations, Governor Youngkin has stepped up and donated blood himself. As reported by CBS Richmond, Governor Glenn Youngkin (R – Virginia) visited the Emerywood Donation Center in Henrico County on Monday to give blood and encourage Virginians to do this same. […]

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- June 17, 2022
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Youngkin Signs Legislation to Expand Health Care for Realtors

Governor Youngkin has taken steps to extend healthcare options to more people by signing a bill that will expand healthcare coverage options for Virginia’s realtor community. Today, Governor Glenn Youngkin ceremonially signed HB 768, sponsored by Delegate Keith Hodges, R-Urbanna, and SB 335, sponsored by Senator George Barker, D-Southern Fairfax, to allow the Virginia REALTORS® to form an association […]

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- May 17, 2022
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Virginia Scores Second, North Carolina First in Spring 2022 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Rating

Virginia’s hospital network is second in the nation for safety, according to Leapfrog’s Spring 2022 ranking — down one place since fall 2021. North Carolina moved up from second in the fall 2021 ranking. The Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association noted that Virginia is still improving, with 59.2 percent of the Commonwealth’s hospitals receiving an […]

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- April 17, 2022
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Nursing Home Close to Closing Up Shop Due to Vaccine Mandaites

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One side effect of the Virginia-wide vaccine mandates for healthcare workers seems to be stories like this one, which may prompt Bedford County’s Board of Supervisors to sell the Bedford County Nursing Home. Established as the County Poor Farm in 1831, it is one of the few county-owned nursing facilities in Virginia. It even traces […]

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- February 28, 2022
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Tenets of Critical Race Theory Reported at 23 of Top 25 US Medical Schools

According to criticalrace.org, a site that monitors CRT curricula and training in higher education, at least 23 of America’s 25 most prestigious medical colleges and universities have some form of mandatory student training or coursework on ideas related to CRT. William Jacobson, professor at Cornell Law School and founder of Legal Insurrection designed and curated criticalrace.org’s sprawling database that previously examined elite […]

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- October 13, 2017
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Fowler: Trump Executive Order Could Revolutionize Health Insurance

President Trump’s executive order could visibly expand the number of health care coverage choices for working class Americans.

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- September 26, 2017
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VHREF Livecast On Virginia’s Opioid Epidemic Tonight at 8pm

Nationwide, more than 50,000 die of this epidemic every year — that’s a 9/11 scale loss of human life every three weeks.

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Shaun Kenney is the Senior Editor for The Republican Standard. ...
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- August 14, 2017
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Health Care And The Tragedy of the Commons

The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star offers some helpful thoughts on what is driving health care costs up the roof — namely, the example of a scarce resource being gobbled up by those who probably don’t need it: VHI says that at least 14 percent of the 1.3 million visits Virginians made to emergency rooms in 2015 […]

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Shaun Kenney is the Senior Editor for The Republican Standard. ...