Pat Powers rushes to tamp down the Robert Pear’s suggestion of a split between Pat’s sponsors Governor Dennis Daugaard and Senator John Thune on Medicaid expansion…
Tag: Medicaid
Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) is looking at Medicaid expansion from a partisan political perspective, so why don’t we? In his December 8 budget address, Governor Dennis Daugaard…
With the possibility that laggardly South Dakota may finally expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, let’s take a moment to consider Medicaid fraud. The people South Dakota…
It bothers me that some people who can work will become more dependent on government…. I hate that. I hate dependency. —Governor Dennis Daugaard, FY2017 budget…
The FY2017 budget proposed yesterday by Governor Dennis Daugaard includes $989,613,013 (you could round that to one billion) in “tax expenditures,” also known as tax breaks. Tax…
Democrats may be annoyed by yet another miserly budget address from a governor who doesn’t fully put his money where his mouth is on vital public goods. But the…
A Facebook correspondent looks at Health Secretary Kim Malsam-Rysdon’s suggestion that Governor Dennis Daugaard wants to require new Medicaid recipients to work and asks if that’s even…
If Governor Dennis Daugaard offers to expand Medicaid in his budget address next week (and I contend that’s still a big if), he won’t do so happily.…
The Health Care Solutions Coalition meets this week Wednesday (1 p.m. at the Pierre Ramkota). Their mission: figure out if South Dakota can finally expand Medicaid under…
After forgoing two years worth of health benefits and economic stimulus for South Dakota, Governor Dennis Daugaard may finally be surrendering the permanence and logic of the Affordable Care…