In a ruling last Friday, federal Judge James Boasberg blocked Kentucky’s Medicaid work requirement. Boasberg’s ruling lays out grounds on which South Dakota citizens could…
Tag: Medicaid
We have previously discussed how Medicaid expansion (you know, the good practical plan that we Democrats support and Republicans oppose) is even better for rural…
The Legislative Research Council has released prison population data for April 2018. The state penitentiary in Sioux Falls had 4% more prisoners than projected in…
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…
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…