David Montgomery left South Dakota last December for a better job in the Twin Cities. He now gets to report on Gallup numbers showing Minnesota's better rate of uninsured people: At the beginning of 2014, just 9.5 percent of Minnesotans…
Posts tagged as “health insurance”
Thousands of South Dakotans are paying the price for Governor Dennis Daugaard's and the SDGOP's intransigent opposition to expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. We are all paying the cost of turning away hundreds of millions of dollars of…
If we were making a list of the top ten stories that did not happen in 2014, we'd probably want to include the fact that the full implementation of the Affordable Care Act did not lead to the collapse of…
An eager reader reminds me that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear King v. Burwell, the selfish conservative effort to sabotage of the premium tax credits offered under the Affordable Care Act. (Recall that King v. Burwell was the…
Regrets? Ha! Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, South Dakota just saved $9.1 million. Because of the failure of the free market, South Dakota created a high risk pool in 2003 to provide health insurance for people the death panels…
As the federal health insurance exchange launches its open enrollment period, the New York Times reports that the private insurers participating in the exchange may be jacking up their rates by as much as 20%. Policyholders wanting to keep their…
Rep. Kevin Killer is fighting for re-election in District 27. He's leading the mighty get-out-the-vote charge on the Pine Ridge Reservation that could tip the balance in the U.S. Senate race. And on top of that, he's proposing a big…
South Dakota Magazine continues to live dangerously, allowing me to grace its genteel online pages with my political polemics. This week I offer my Leftist voting guide for the 2014 general election. On candidates, I offer one simple criterion: check…