Governor Dennis Daugaard's FY2015 budget proposal includes a boost to this fiscal year's corrections budget of $4 million. The Governor says we need to pump $4 million more into our prisons to fix a "correctional healthcare shortfall" arising from "significant…
Posts tagged as “health care”
Folks may not like Congress, but working there sure seems popular. Yankton attorney Jason Ravnsborg is the fifth Republican entry into the U.S. Senate race. campaign for the U.S. Senate seat Tim Johnson will vacate next year. What will we…
Mr. Epp's Northern Plains News points us toward a November report by the Center for Rural Affairs on the impact of the Affordable Care Act on senior citizens. Far from grannies being thrown under buses by death panels, report author…
Here's something else that Rep. Kristi Noem, Senator John Thune, and every Republican running for Sen. Tim Johnson's seat would take away from South Dakota by repealing the Affordable Care Act: a $1.3 million grant for increased health care services…
Hey, Eve! The Mitchell Daily Republic found that ad you were talking about! Allen Unruh, Ben Van Deest, and other Sioux Falls area Tea Partiers need you to believe that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a Bolshevik…
This blog has remained mostly ambivalent toward the "any willing provider" initiative that supporters hope to put on next fall's ballot. Up until last week, I hadn't heard anything about it outside of this little chunk of the blogosphere, either.…
...Fox News Peddles Willful Ignorance. All you Republicans who holler about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act being "rammed down our throats!" (why the obsession with this image when discussing a plan that looks very much like plans proposed…