South Dakota is applying to the federal government for a waiver that will allow the state to implement a work requirement for Medicaid recipients. Governor…
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Dusty Johnson says he doesn’t want food stamps to pay for pop. If he can justify limiting SNAP payments to more necessary beverages, would he…
DevelopIn their bids for governor, Marty Jackley and Kristi Noem are floating all sorts of airy-fairy economic development plans. Billie Sutton responds with a hodgepodge…
Does any state regret expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (you know, the signature legislation of President Barack Obama that, fourteen months later, Donald…
The only discussion of Medicaid expansion in the Legislature this year was a failed attempt by Trumpy Republican legislators, scared of both Barack Obama and…
I’ve heard a lot of talk from legislators at the Aberdeen crackerbarrels about the need to find funding to subsidize wages at nursing homes and…
Among the few policy initiatives in a mostly retroflective State of the State Address yesterday, Governor Dennis Daugaard embraced a cranky Trump proposal to impose…
The Legislative Research Council just issued the July and August reports on Medical Services Data and Trends, which tell us how much South Dakota and…
With the House adjourned for the August recess, Representative Kristi Noem is home telling whoppers just like Senator Mike Rounds about her destructive health insurance…