Donald Trump promised “insurance for everybody”: “We’re going to have insurance for everybody,” Trump said. “There was a philosophy in some circles that if you…
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At least Congresswoman Kristi Noem and her fellow Trumpublicans are going big on their upward wealth distribution. Instead of nickel-and-diming us to death, they’re 1,700-dollaring us to…
Speaker Paul Ryan is catching heck for saying yesterday that the main problem with the Affordable Care Act is that it relies on the basic…
My local paper reports that 27,909 South Dakotans signed up by December 24 for individual marketplace health insurance policies under the Affordable Care Act. That’s 27,909 South Dakotans who…
According to some nifty clickable maps by the Kaiser Family Foundation, South Dakota had 24,600 enrollees in the Affordable Care Act Marketplace in 2016. That’s a few thousand more than…
“…the disaster that’s been Obamacare…” So says a Republican Congressman on NPR this morning. That hyperbole matches the language Senator Mike Rounds uses about the Affordable…
…Heidelberger Offers Thune Interim Plan to Soft-Land ACA Repeal The rise of Trump may have made Governor Dennis Daugaard throw in the towel on Medicaid…
Yes, insurance premiums on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces are rising by 25%. Subsidies are also increasing, insulating many policy purchasers from this inflation, but we’re still…
Wellmark announced Tuesday that it will no longer offer individual health insurance plans in South Dakota. Here’s Wellmark VP Laura Jackson’s pleasant farewell to 8,000 South Dakota policyholders:…
Senator John Thune (for whose health insurance his employer—we the people—picks up over 70% of the tab) says that high health insurance premiums show that the…