The Bennett County Hospital system is closing its nursing home before skyrocketing costs sink its entire organization, including the new hospital they are building in…
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The Legislature’s interim Study Committee on County Funding and Services held its second meeting yesterday. A presentation on the money counties spend on healthcare prompted…
State Medicaid director Sarah Aker told the Board of Social Services Tuesday that the state is hiring 68 new staff to prepare for voter-approved Medicaid…
Last November, voters ordered South Dakota to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act starting July 1. But CNN reports that South Dakota is one…
Representative Tony Venhuizen (R-13/Sioux Falls) got the House to go along with his attempt to gum up Medicaid expansion with a work requirement, but he…
The Republican Legislature may be determined to gum up Medicaid expansion with House Joint Resolution 5004, which would ask voters to add a work requirement…
Here’s another reason Governor Kristi Noem won’t talk to the local press: KELO-TV has upgraded the condition of longterm care in South Dakota from “crisis”…
While the Senate slaps Julie Frye-Mueller around for bucking one-party rule, the House wants to slap voters around for the same grave offense against the…
Back in early September, the South Dakota Department of Health signed a contract (#23SC090939) with the Transformation Project that directed $136,000 in federal money to the…
Governor Kristi Noem is sticking with her campaign flip-flop to finally implement the Democratic plan to exempt food from the state sales tax. In yesterday’s…