Our members of Congress and our Governor are really, really mad that the Department of Veterans Affairs proposal to “realign and modernize VA health care…
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Republican legislators are using the prospect of voters’ approval of Medicaid expansion this November as one of their excuses not to cut our regressive sales…
Contrary to Republican bushwah, the “tyranny” of vaccine mandates has not caused a shortage of health care workers at rural hospitals: Rural hospital officials who…
Marijuana is the subject of 49 bills in the Legislative hopper. That’s 8.9% of the 551 bills submitted for the 2022 Session. For comparison, agriculture,…
How would you like to vote on the meaning of life in November? Gubernatorial candidate and Representative Steven Haugaard (R-10/Sioux Falls) wanted to throw us…
Veterans want more socialized medicine, and they are mad that they aren’t getting it. Veterans gathered at a meeting in Sioux Falls last night to…
Expanding Medicaid can pass the South Dakota House, if we just don’t say “Medicaid expansion.” Retired dentist Representative Paul Miskimins (R-20/Mitchell) offers House Bill 1103,…
On Tuesday, Governor Kristi Noem said South Dakota needs to spend money to recruit and support more volunteer emergency medical technicians: Unfortunately, our emergency responders…
Via KELO Radio, we learn that Medicare is reducing payments to nine South Dakota hospitals as punishment for seeing too many patients come back for…
Survival of the fittest? One of the advantages rural life offers that can coax urban folks to give up almost half of their pay and…