South Dakota conservatives were pleased when Governor Dennis Daugaard decided he would keep his hands clean of one element of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and let the federal government run the health insurance exchange requires every state…
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The budget hawks in Washington are considering raising the eligibility age for Medicare. The Congressional Budget Office has calculated that excluding younger old folks from Medicare would reduce federal spending of $113 billion over ten years. Those savings come by…
Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan wants to turn Medicare into a private voucher program. Kristi Noem has supported Ryan's Medicare privatization since 2010, even though she'll deny the facts of the plan to your face. Vice President Joe Biden says…
Firefighters know the importance of working together and protecting each other. That's part of why South Dakota firefighter John Lauer of the Tatanka Hotshots, based in Custer, started a petition to get Uncle Sam to offer federal health insurance to…
Rep. Kristi Noem and her fellow Republicans want to cut 19 million people from Medicaid. Taking care of our neighbors (at least the ones who don't give big campaign contributions) evidently costs too much for the richest nation in the…