In response to a request by Kim Bobo, the Executive Director of the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy, Middleburg Town Council adopted a resolution "requesting the General Assembly and Governor of Virginia accept Federal Medicaid funding and implement the full expansion of health insurance coverage as provided by the Affordable Care Act."

The resolution passed without opposition, but with three abstentions.

With Mayor Betsy Davis absent, the Council Session was chaired by Vice Mayor Darlene Kirk.

Of the six other Council members present, three voted in favor of the motion: Kevin Daly; Kathy Jo Shea; and Mark Snyder; and three abstained: Kevin Hazard; Philip Miller; and Trowbridge Littleton.

When Town Attorney Angela Plowman noted that three votes did not constitute a majority, Vice Mayor Kirk exercised the Chair's tie-breaking authority to vote in favor, causing the motion to pass and the resolution to be adopted and forwarded on to Richmond.

The resolution reads, in part:

Whereas Virginia's Medicaid program has very restrictive eligibility criteria that exclude approximately four hundred thousand low-income Virginians from receiving comprehensive, affordable health insurance coverage to provide for personal well-being and financial stability; and

Whereas, expanding Medicaid or creating a state solution to use federal Medicaid funding would be good for Virginia's economy...; and

Whereas expanding health care coverage would help Virginia's families by reducing debt (an estimate of $600-$1,000 for each individual who gained Medicare coverage) and reducing personal bankruptcies by eight per cent . . .

Now be it resolved that the Mayor and Members of Town Council call upon the General Assembly and the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia to fully accept Federal Medicaid funds and expand insurance coverage pursuant to the Affordable Care Act during the next regular session of the General Assembly."

Middleburg is a prosperous village set in the west of one of the most affluent counties in the United States, and in the center of Virginia's horse country. A little known fact, however is that 135 people, 20% of the population of Middleburg, lives in affordable work force housing owned by the Windy Hill Foundation.