The House of Delegates and the State Senate have passed different versions of the budget. The State Senate budget includes a marketplace plan to expand Medicaid to more than a quarter million Virginians; the House of Delegates' budget includes no plan for the expansion of Medicaid. A conference committee has been appointed to resolve differences between the two budgets.
Please email and/or call members of the House Conference Committee and ask them to support the Senate plan for Medicaid expansion. The plan is funded fully from tax monies paid by Virginia citizens and businesses and that money will go to other states if Virginia does not adopt a plan. The loss to Virginia is more than $5 million a day and more than a quarter million people left uninsured.
Members of the House Conference Committee on Budget are:
