You know why Mike Rounds is really losing sleep over the Affordable Care Act? Because it works. Today's evidence: Goldman Sachs researcher Alec Phillips says the ACA's insurance subsidies are stimulating the economy. People are spending more money on health…
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Republican candidate for Governor Lora Hubbel sends out an e-mail that reiterates her standard charge that her primary opponent, Governor Dennis Daugaard, has facilitated the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in South Dakota. Hubbel says that if you'll make…
Marion Michael Rounds will lose an ACA-Medicare debate to Rick Weiland. His "ObamaCare robs Medicare" scare ad is a lie four ways to Friday. And really, Mike? You want working South Dakotans to believe that you with your hefty insurance-salesman…
It's funny how blog conversations come together. Last week I sat down to chat with Independent candidate for governor Mike Myers. Among other things, he mentioned that we should require hospitals to publish prices for all of their procedures. South…
My first face-to-face encounter with Independent gubernatorial candidate Mike Myers, like that with a certain illegitimate U.S. Senate candidate, did not go well. When I walked into the Sioux Falls Democratic Forum Friday, Myers was there, talking with Democratic gubernatorial…
Michael Larson reads NPN's report that the PPACA Medicaid expansion could save 38 to 95 South Dakotans' lives, uses the word deontological, and declares Dennis Daugaard a death panel of one. Brilliant! The Governor's decision to not expand Medicaid fails…
Blog pal Joe Loveland from Minnesota fires a shot across the border at Governor Dennis Daugaard's refusal to provide health coverage to 48,000 low-income South Dakotans through the PPACA Medicaid expansion. In full satire mode, Loveland reports that wealthy philanthropist…
Marion Michael Rounds's weekend press is the usual blap of vague policy pronouncements and wishful thinking: South Dakota common sense, national debt, EPA bad, go broke and die if you aren't working— —wait, what's that last one? [Rounds] wants to…