Smarter Healthcare: Let’s Pay Doctors To Keep People Healthy
As a medical doctor, I’m concerned about many aspects of the changes taking place in health care. But I’m also excited, because we have the opportunity to make health care a lot better. It’s a chance to change to a system of keeping individuals healthy, rather than performing procedures for payment. We can improve individuals’ […]
Va. auditors examine grants to businesses
There have been cheers from football fans, but also some grumbling about “corporate welfare” since it was announced last week that the Washington Redskins will get $6.4 million in government money to expand their training facilities in Ashburn and move their summer training camp to Richmond. Robert Griffin III (10) during drills with teammates at […]
Va. auditors examine grants to businesses
There have been cheers from football fans, but also some grumbling about “corporate welfare” since it was announced last week that the Washington Redskins will get $6.4 million in government money to expand their training facilities in Ashburn and move their summer training camp to Richmond. The eight-year deal is intended to keep the team […]
Urban crescent leaders call for state transportation financing action
Richmond, Va. — In what was described as an unprecedented coming-together, local government leaders from across the state’s urban crescent agreed to develop a common policy to confront Virginia’s looming transportation funding crisis. Meeting in Henrico County Thursday, the officials said they will use their considerable influence back home to pressure the General Assembly to […]
Innovation is key to controlling health care costs, speakers say
Virginia’s Secretary of Health and Human Resources said he hears the same question wherever he goes. “The question I am asked most is … what are you going to do when the Supreme Court rules” on the federal health care overhaul, said William A. Hazel Jr., speaking at a health care conference in Richmond organized […]
Local elected leaders to Virginia legislators: Fix transportation funding
HENRICO — Virginia’s transportation doomsday clock is ticking down to 2017. That’s essentially the message approximately 50 mayors and chairs of boards of supervisors from the Golden Crescent — the regions of Northern Virginia, Richmond and Hampton Roads — had Thursday for state legislators and residents. “It’s about our kids that we’re here,” the group’s […]
Virginia lawmakers eyeing year-round school
Longer school years are an idea school officials in Maryland and the District also have been advocating for, as research shows that extending the calendar improves student achievement — but funding and teacher contracts can complicate the picture, and parents sometimes prefer to keep summers for vacations and camps. Del. Kaye Kory, D-Falls Church, is […]
