South Dakota's implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act proceeds apace. Rep. Kathy Tyler (D-4/Big Stone City) notes one more way that President Obama's health care reform act is helping South Dakotans: A few weeks ago, a desperate…
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The Executive Board of the South Dakota Legislature wants to restore a life-insurance benefit for legislators. According to Mr. Mercer, the Legislature extended this benefit to its members after Rep. Gary Bender of Menno died in a summer farming accident.…
While Congresswoman Kristi Noem raises money for the 2014 campaign that she says she's not thinking about, the real leaders in Washington are working on the Farm Bill. USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack got the House and Senate Ag committee leaders…
A friend of mine is looking for health insurance. He got laid off (these things happen) and thus lost his employer-based health plan. He has a pre-existing condition. He's been turned down by Sanford, which needs to save its money…
...because it doesn't work! I'll be watching the first Presidential debate tonight and kibbitzing via Twitter. Part of the debate will focus on health care, wherein the Republican who prototyped the Affordable Care Act will deny history and reality to…
Madison Area Arts Council president Chris Francis announces that Saturday's hip-hop show (yes, hip-hop) at the Brickhouse will be the last Madison Area Arts Council show for a while... and maybe ever. Who's killing the arts council? The insurance company:…
M. Michael Rounds has released his first batch of T.V. campai—er, insurance advertisements for the 2014 Senate race. Here's one featuring The Dunes golf course owner Cullan Deis: Fischer, Rounds & Associates: Socializing risk for rich people who build in…
Rep. Kristi Noem isn't the only person making lots of money on federally subsidized crop insurance. Also profiting at Kristi's preferred trough are several foreign insurance companies: Twenty insurance companies in Bermuda, Japan, Switzerland, Australia, Canada and the U.S. were…