I kid you not. At yesterday’s crackerbarrel in Watertown, rookie Rep. Neal Tapio (R-5/Watertown responded to a question about getting rid of Medicaid by saying (timestamp…
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I just listened to Rep. Kristi Noem completely avoid a listener question on SDPB about Medicaid expansion. Some public radio listener (not me, I promise!) asked…
I thought that, even if Governor Dennis Daugaard’s foot-dragging and Donald Trump’s victory mean South Dakota never cashes in on Medicaid expansion, we could still save some…
…Heidelberger Offers Thune Interim Plan to Soft-Land ACA Repeal The rise of Trump may have made Governor Dennis Daugaard throw in the towel on Medicaid…
Governor Mike Pence expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act in Indiana. But now as Donald Trump’s Vice-President-Elect, Pence has convinced our Governor Dennis Daugaard to drop…
Rep. Al Novstrup continues to squish around on Medicaid expansion: Novstrup said there are three factors that will affect South Dakota’s decision about Medicaid —…
Governor Dennis Daugaard yesterday appointed former House Majority Leader David Lust to the District 34 House seat left vacant by Rep. Dan Dryden’s death last month. Now-Representative Lust…
The Indian Health Service yesterday announced that Avera Health will get $6.8 million to provide telehealth services to the nineteen Great Plains Area service units (North…
An area where Governor Dennis Daugaard and the Legislature have more damagingly dithered than grassy buffer strips is Medicaid expansion. Three years in, and we…
An eager reader composes this unpleasant scenario by which the Aberdeen City Council could trigger gubernatorial meddling in the District 3 Senate and House races: Does it scare you that…