Governor Larry Rhoden has often touted Trump policies as transforming rural health care. A new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Associated Press…
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But let’s not think one clever one-liner in the Oval Office makes Larry Rhoden a great statesman. On principle and policy, he’s still incoherent. The…
On a 27–39 vote, the House last Thursday rejected House Joint Resolution 5002, a radical Republican attempt to get voters to repeal Medicaid expansion in…
Quack-medicine advocate rookie Rep.Bobbi Andera (R-10/Sioux Falls) claims South Dakotans need “more access options” for the medications of their choosing. But she wants to deny…
Governor Larry Rhoden yesterday announced that the federal Department of Hellth is giving South Dakota $189.4 million to subsidize rural health care. The money comes…
Governor Larry Rhoden noted in his budget address yesterday that Medicaid has now overtaken K-12 as a share of the state general fund. But don’t…
Todd Epp spots research comparing Medicaid expansion in South Dakota and Georgia. South Dakota launched Medicaid expansion without a work requirement; Georgia imposed a work…
In 2022, South Dakota voters made the smart fiscal choice to expand Medicaid under President Barack Obama’s wildly successful Affordable Care Act. Dictator Trump’s July…
Representative Tony Venhuizen (R-13/Sioux Falls) has the first constitutional amendment in the 2024 Legislative hopper. Venhuizen is trying again to put before the voters a…
Speaking of ballot measures, the expansion of Medicaid that South Dakota voters smartly approved last November may not be costing the state nearly as much…