Garrett focuses on health care

The General Assembly has been busy dictating the outcome of several bills that have been proposed for 2011. So far, the General Assembly has voted on matters such as health care, sexual slavery, state-owned liquor stores, transportation, education, the use of GPS spy technologies and synthetic marijuana. Lynchburg’s representative Del. Dr. T. Scott Garrett’s, R-Lynchburg, bill on hospital staffing was […]

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Healthcare bill on precipice

The ultimate fate of President Barack Obama’s 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) now lies in the hands of the nine U.S. Supreme Court Justices. In late March, the case was brought before the Supreme Court after 26 states—including Virginia—challenged the constitutionality of the law and its individual health care mandate, requiring every American to purchase health care […]

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