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Christopher K. Peace
The Virginia institute for Public Policy published a white paper called "The Prognosis for National Health Insturance: A Virginia Perspective." In it, among other ideas, Dr. Arthur Laffer recommends allowing the interstate purchase of insurance, reallocating the majority of Medicaid spending into simple voucher for low...-income individuals to purchase their own insurance, eliminate scope of practice laws to allow non-physician health care professionals to practice, and reform tort liability laws. This year in VA we will be considering the medical malpractice cap. This white paper appears to make a good case for keeping the cap the same. It also recommends a reduction in the number of mandated benefits that insurers are required to cover. I am pasting the link to our current mandated benefits and would be curious which ones you would eliminate.Read More
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It is important to note that Virginia’s insurance laws require that most health insurance plans, including Managed Care Health Insurance Plans (MCHIPs): 1) provide certain benefits, known as mandated benefits, ...

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Women can delay having their first Pap test for cervical cancer until they turn 21 and many can wait longer to go back for follow-up screenings, according to new guidelines released Friday by a major medical group.

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Christopher K. Peace The House passed the $1.2 trillion health care plan by a 220 to 215 vote. Thirty-nine Democrats voted against it, as did every Republican except for Joseph Cao of Louisiana.

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Christopher K. Peace Watch this video and remember to be thankful for our freedoms, especially the 1st Amendment.

Christopher K. Peace Election Day is here! Please exercise your freedoms and vote to protect them! Change is coming to Virginia today with Bob McDonnell as our next Governor.

Christopher K. Peace Thank you to all who attended last night's fundraiser! It was a wonderful event and made so by the great support from you.

Christopher K. Peace TOday was named VA's 2009 Legislative Champion from Natl MS Society for Livable Home Tax Credit Bill! Thank you for the honor: www.nmss.org.

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Central Virginia covers about 15 districts in the House of Delegates. Over the years, few have proved competitive. Republicans and Democrats enjoy electoral locks in constituencies designed to suit the interests not of citizens but of politicians. ...

Christopher K. Peace Hanover Safe Place candlelight ceremony 10/29/09 at 6 pm Ashland Library. HSP will honor community partner with Nina Peace Comm. Excellence Award.

Christopher K. Peace I invite your comments and thoughts on this interesting article.
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After the needless death of his father, the author, a business executive, began a personal exploration of a health-care industry that for years has delivered poor service and irregular quality at astonishingly high cost. ...














