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…
Tag: Medicaid
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,…
According to the Secretary of State’s ballot question website, only one initiative petition was submitted yesterday, the Medicaid expansion amendment sponsored by the big hospitals…
Sponsors of South Dakota’s proposed initiated constitutional amendments have two weeks and two days to collect their 33,921 petition signatures and submit their completed petitions…
Dakotans for Health isn’t just fighting to expand Medicaid in South Dakota; they’re fighting for more democracy for everybody in our fair state. Recognizing the…
Rodney M. Bordeaux, President of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, says American Indians depend on Medicaid for affordable health care and will benefit from finally expanding…
Things are tough all over rural America for nursing homes recovering from losing lots of paying customers to coronavirus and now struggling even more than…
Certain tribal leaders aren’t letting the inside baseball of competing ballot question committees and fiscal notes distract them from the big policy goal we all should…