Sometimes it seems like Kristi Noem’s comms team puts words in her mouth just to provoke us and distract us from the substance of her…
Posts tagged as “insurance”
The Legislative Research Council issued last week the first monthly report on general fund receipts under the first Kristi Noem fiscal year. In good news—if…
If you think Al Novstrup is an effective legislator, this is bad news. If you think bouncy houses are a menace to children’s safety requiring…
South Dakota has a number of statutes prohibiting “unfair trade practices” in the insurance industry. Among them is SDCL 58-33-74, which limits the value of…
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…
The first monthly revenue report of Fiscal Year 2019 suggests our tax revenues are again outperforming our Legislature’s conservative estimates. We bought more stuff in…
Hooray for Lee Schoenbeck, crusader against corporate fascism! Jonathan Ellis reported last weekend that insurance companies are trying to limit the ability of injured workers…
In his detailed take on the complications caused by the enactment of Amendment S, Seth Tupper brings to our attention the trouble Henry T. Nicholas’s crime victims bill…
Our World in Data offers a useful series of charts on global trends in financing healthcare. Among theit data, authors Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Max Roser offer…
I’ve been calling Senator Phyllis Heineman’s (R-13/Sioux Falls) self-serving “tax-credit scholarships” stealth vouchers since she first floated the plan in the 2015 Legislature. Now that Heineman’s school-privatization…