When private equity enters health care, history shows cost-cutting follows. Staff are pared back, services are trimmed, and the focus shifts from care to margins. Public ownership ensures accountability; private profit motives don’t.
West Virginians don’t want a handout. Capito and Justice did not fight for us. We want a fair chance to live an informed, healthy, meaningful and productive life. Capito and Justice just made life harder.
Over 64,000 West Virginians rely on the ePTC to make individual marketplace monthly premiums affordable. If Congress does not act to extend them this year, ours will be one of the hardest hit states.
West Virginians for Affordable Health Care (WVAHC) continues to interpret the pause placed on federal financial assistance programs, as the memo issued to agencies by the White House Office of Management and Budget late Monday is short on details.
(CHARLESTON, WV) — The month of April is a critical reminder that over 560,000 West Virginians – nearly one-third of the population – rely on Medicaid for their health coverage. Regardless of who you are or where you live, you or someone you love has almost certainly benefited from Medicaid. And with more Mountaineers relying on Medicaid coverage than ever before, it is essential that lawmakers work to preserve and protect Medicaid.