Take action
VCHA is the primary advocate for Virginia’s member health centers at the local, state and federal level. Here is where you can help right now.
Protect Medicaid
The 2025 budget reconciliation law (H.R. 1), signed on July 4, 2025, includes nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid and CHIP spending cuts over the next decade, a rollback projected to leave 10 million more Americans uninsured by 2034.
In Virginia, Medicaid is a lifeline, particularly in rural communities, where nearly one-quarter of adults and 40% of children rely on Medicaid or CHIP. It is also critical to the stability of community health centers: 36% of Virginia’s health center patients were on Medicaid in 2024. Deep cuts would force many centers to scale back services or close, leaving families with fewer options and longer trips for care.
- Letters are ready for health center patients, health center employees and concerned citizens.
- Share your Medicaid story: VCHA uses stories in its campaigns and its meetings with Congress.
- Make civic engagement part of patient care with Vot-ER’s free, nonpartisan tools, through VCHA’s 2025 partnership.
Current focus
Exempt FQHCs from the 340B rebate pilot
How VCHA advocates
VCHA monitors federal, state and local public policy, works with elected officials so health centers have the resources and support they need, and engages member organizations, their patients and the media to make the work of health centers heard.
Medicaid figures: VCHA, Protect Medicaid; NACHC Virginia Health Center Fact Sheet (January 2026, 2024 UDS).