The blogosphere works best when we all talk to each other, openly, civilly, and rationally, to build our understanding of an issue. This weekend's example: John Tsitrian and I have a blog conversation that helps us understand that, on the…
Posts tagged as “health care”
Rick Weiland and Stace Nelson are clearly in cahoots. The Democratic candidate for Senate issued a press release yesterday saying GOP primary frontrunner Mike Rounds is lying about the Affordable Care Act. Shortly thereafter, Rounds's primary challenger Nelson issued a…
Before the 2014 Legislative session, the South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations had two University of Nebraska–Kearney profs study the potential impacts of Medicaid expansion in South Dakota. Today the South Dakota Budget and Policy Project finally posted that December…
An eager reader forwards this article showing how Medicaid expansion is good for Dakota people... North Dakota people, that is: The company providing coverage for North Dakota's Medicaid expansion told state lawmakers Wednesday that many residents who haven't seen a…
And now a word from our Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, Rick Weiland, who sounds a little bit like Stace Nelson and a lot like someone sick and tired of Mike Rounds's lies about Medicare: Platitudes and opposing President Obama.…
Independent candidate for Senate Larry Pressler writes the lead-in for what should be the first question at tonight's debate among the GOP Senate candidates on SDPB: Obamacare is here to stay. Our new U.S. senator will have to do the…
Lora Hubbel says she's running for Governor for the same reason I'm blogging: she just wants to "save South Dakota." And Hubbel and I may not disagree as much as you would think on what South Dakota needs saving from.…
Kevin Woster's debunking of the Larry Pressler-closet story provokes Joel Rosenthal to recount a locker-room meeting with the veteran Senator and newly minted Independent candidate. Rosenthal says he was "barely clothed in a towel after showering" when Pressler "literally bumped…