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…
Tag: Medicaid
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…
The Affordable Care Act Medicaid expansion is helping hospitals reduce their debts: Since the Affordable Care Act’s first open enrollment in 2013, the number of Americans covered…
As a reminder of what Governor Dennis Daugaard should be doing with his summer, Alaska Governor Bill Walker announced yesterday that he will expand Medicaid…
President Obama and the Democratic Congress included the Medicaid expansion in the Affordable Care Act to save lives. But the Medicaid expansion also provides economic…
Rep. Kristi Noem has told us we should use eminent domain, usurp executive authority to unconstitutionally benefit one company, and build the Keystone XL pipeline because the Canadian…