UPDATED 9/10/25: “State Health Commissioner Dr. Karen Shelton told Senators on the Joint Subcommittee on Health and Human Resources Oversight Wednsday that she would issue a standing order on Thursday 9/11 that would allow Virginians over the age of 65, or adults with underlying conditions, to obtain a COVID-19 vaccine without a prescription.”
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Healthcare
Healthcare Town Hall: Exposing the Costs of the BBB
The meeting room at Twin Hickory Library was packed on 9/6/25 for Democracy Circle RVA’s town hall, Virginia Healthcare Under Attack: Exposing the Costs of Rob Wittman’s Vote for the “Big Beautiful Bill.” The event’s goal was to expose how the shifting public health landscape in America will affect everyone.
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How Healthcare Cuts in Big Beautiful Bill will Impact RVA
The worst of Donald Trump’s Medicaid cuts have not even arrived yet, and local doctors and hospitals are in a panic. While a lot of concern is focused on Southwest Virginia and rural areas that may face hospital closures, the fact is that Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, that was signed into law on July 4th, will kick more than 300.000 Virginians off of their healthcare, and affect all of us.
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Richmond Doctor Reacts to RFK Cuts to Vaccine Research
Doctors believe that the fallout from the administration’s cuts to research funding and grants will affect everyone in the long run, and most people don’t realize how far medical research has come, because it was always something we could count on. Dr. Bruce Silverman, Medical Director of the Goochland Free Clinic points to AIDS as an example of a disease that has been nearly fully controlled because of research like this.
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