Republicans maintain political power by resisting democracy and exploiting minoritarian features of our political system. As long as they can control a majority of smaller,…
Posts tagged as “health care”
Hey, did you hear the one about how the theocrats banned abortion and ended up with more abortions? Yeah, yeah, states like South Dakota that…
Before the Affordable Care Act, we could lose health insurance just by getting sick. The Democratic Congress and President Obama got rid of that concern,…
The South Dakota Department of Health stopped supporting birth control, STD testing, and other family planning services at clinics in Mobridge, Lemmon, and Burke last…
The South Dakota Department of Health offers a Family Planning Program to provide affordable birth control, screenings for sexually transmitted diseases, client education and counseling,…
Republican Congressman Dusty Johnson went to Rapid City last Thursday to celebrate big government spending: The long-debated, evolving plans for veterans’ health care in the…
The Legislature’s interim Study Committee on County Funding and Services held its second meeting yesterday. A presentation on the money counties spend on healthcare prompted…
Among the workers we’re short of in South Dakota are OB-GYNs. Makenzie Huber reports that 46 of South Dakota’s 66 counties have no doctors providing…
In another predictable defeat for censured Senator Julie Frye-Mueller’s whackdoodlery, Senate Health and Human Services rejected Frye-Mueller’s attempt to play doctor on opioid prescriptions. Wednesday…
Kevin Woster has long held the notion that if we can’t beat ’em, we should join ’em—or, more specifically, that in the absence of a…