Representative Phil Jensen (R-33/Rapid City) has a lot of predictable right-wing horsehockey in his bucket of bills. But he also has a couple of bills…
Tag: health care
As a small state with a healthcare oligopoly, South Dakota apparently found it relatively easy to push the first batches of coronavirus vaccines out the…
Dennis Kucinich cemented my conversion from slogan-swilling Republican to real-world, pragmatic Democrat with his long-standing argument that universal health care would save lives and save…
In normal times, if seventeen residents of one nursing home died in less than a month from some preventable malady—botulism, food poisoning, whatever—we’d be freaking…
By the way, as I analyze the newly posted draft amendment petition on redistricting (whose drafters, contrary to the SDGOP spin blog’s hyperventilations, are not violating…
So far, the inattentive White House is leaving distribution and rationing of the coming coronavirus vaccines to the states, and Congress has appropriated only $200…
The SDGOP belches forth more hilarious hypocrisy as Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) tells us South Dakota state government can’t do anything to fight the public…
After admitting that it had been including neonatal intensive care unit beds in its count of hospital beds available midst the coronavirus pandemic, the state…
Sanford and Avera hospitals are reaching the breaking point under the uncontrolled crush of coronavirus cases: “We are not in a good place right now…
South Dakota reported yesterday that coronavirus cases are taking up 607 hospital beds and 100 intensive care unit (ICU) beds. That’s 22% of our hospital…