Remember last year when Kristi Noem said she thought privatizing Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security were a good place to start with cutting the federal budget? Remember when she denied she ever said any such thing once pressed on the…
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Stephanie Herseth Sandlin saw this coming last year, and said so on the campaign trail: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act does patient protection but needs a lot more work on the "affordable" side. The f... f... f... friendly…
The Los Angeles Times reports on efforts to root out waste, fraud, and profiteering in the federal crop insurance program. The program ballooned, thanks to insurance industry lobbying and federal rules that make it tough for farmers to go without…
As we wait for John Boehner and the GOP to decide it's o.k. to resume yelling about socialism and the "total destruction of our constitutional republic" that they must undo by repealing health insurance reform, the South Dakota Legislature faces…
South Dakota's budget crunch is coming in part because of increased enrollment and costs in Medicaid. It's funny, then, that South Dakota is trying to block one way to fix that fiscal problem: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.…