The Legislature yesterday demonstrated its inability to override vetoes and impeach lying, lawbreaking killers, but it did manage to authorize spending $20.7 million more in…
Tag: Medicaid
Monday’s weak committee approval of Senate Bill 186 foreshadowed its dismal prospects in the full Senate. Senator Wayne Steinhauer’s attempt to beat voters to the…
Senator Wayne Steinhauer’s (R-9/Wall Lake) proposal to beat voters to the punch on expanding Medicaid survived first contact with committee yesterday, but barely. Senate Health…
So far, the Legislature loves more Medicaid. Senator Wayne Steinhauer’s (R-9/Wall Lake) Senate Bill 102, the Medicaid expansion lockbox for American Rescue Plan incentive dollars,…
Remember how I said on Thursday that we can probably get the South Dakota Legislature to expand Medicaid if just don’t tell them they are…
Expanding Medicaid can pass the South Dakota House, if we just don’t say “Medicaid expansion.” Retired dentist Representative Paul Miskimins (R-20/Mitchell) offers House Bill 1103,…
The Steinhauer/Rave gambit is on! Since the South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations* announced its coalition and its plan to circulate a petition to write…
Evidently ballot measures can coax some Republicans to support Medicaid at least as much as they support marijuana. Senator Wayne Steinhauer (R-9/Wall Lake) went to breakfast…
When I took my deep drag yesterday morning on the Legislature’s big marijuana bong, I noted in passing that Representative Will Mortenson’s Republican friends (and…
Representative Will Mortenson (R-24/Pierre) has been a willing participant in the Republican war on initiatives. In 2016, he led the SDGOP campaign against Amendment V,…