When I first reported on Senator Stace Nelson’s (R-19/Fulton) intent to file legislation forcing doctors to perform medically unnecessary sonograms on women seeking abortions, I…
Tag: health care
Rosebud Sioux Tribe President Rodney Bordeaux told the Legislature Thursday that expanding Medicaid would help South Dakota’s tribes deal with healthcare shortfalls. He said broadening…
Folks watching the comment section will recall Jerry’s mention of the new requirement that kicked in yesterday, brought to us by President Barack Obama’s great…
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…
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…