Who are South Dakota’s biggest employers? Hospitals, government, and grocers: One out of five of your neighbors works for one of our three big hospital…
Tag: health care
Try as he might, Senator Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton) still didn’t get his forced sonogram/amplified-fetal-heart-murmur bill into first position in the Senate hopper. But he did…
South Dakota requires doctors who provide abortion services to “offer[…] the pregnant woman an opportunity to view a sonogram of her unborn child.” Dr. Stace…
Short-sighted Republicans resisted Governor Dennis Daugaard’s plan to expand Medicaid, but part of Daugaard’s crafty plan has been saved and is saving South Dakota money.…
Premiums on the Affordable Care Act individual marketplaces are going down, but one of the attendees at my public forum last night claimed that one…
O.K., all you Democrats who’ve been fretting about when or whether Billie Sutton would work up the guts to drop the hammer on Kristi Noem,…
Primary loser Senator Neal Tapio (R-5/Watertown) uses fear and falsehood to stay relevant. If Tapio’s bigotry and fearmongering doesn’t make you sick, it could make it harder for…
While it’s good to see the ITC ending Donald Trump’s destructive meddling in the newsprint market, it’s a relief to hear Trump’s new Secretary of…
Two podcasts in a row? Don’t get used to it—audio still takes more time to edit than text and links! Last week I pulled a…
The New York Times notes that, thanks to Donald Trump’s attack on the Affordable Care Act’s guarantee of insurance for folks with pre-existing conditions, Democrats…