As Bearcreekbat rightly reminds us, we should not attack politicians for expanding public assistance, at least not when that public assistance promotes the general welfare rather than corporate cronies. That's why we should cheer four Republican-controlled states that are likely…
Posts tagged as “Medicaid”
The Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion is doing what Tim Johnson, Stan Adelstein, and Joe Lowe have said it would do in states smart enough to adopt it. More people are getting affordable health care, and hospitals are seeing lower…
The Affordable Care Act is winning: The big news was the release of new data from the White House indicating that enrollment in Medicaid has surged in states that elected to expand the program under the Affordable Care Act. In…
Joe Lowe knows history is against him. South Dakotans haven't elected a Democrat as their governor since 1974. But Lowe believes 2014 is different. In this interview with the Madville Times, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate says his positions on and…
Before the 2014 Legislative session, the South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations had two University of Nebraska–Kearney profs study the potential impacts of Medicaid expansion in South Dakota. Today the South Dakota Budget and Policy Project finally posted that December…
An eager reader forwards this article showing how Medicaid expansion is good for Dakota people... North Dakota people, that is: The company providing coverage for North Dakota's Medicaid expansion told state lawmakers Wednesday that many residents who haven't seen a…
Michael Larson reads NPN's report that the PPACA Medicaid expansion could save 38 to 95 South Dakotans' lives, uses the word deontological, and declares Dennis Daugaard a death panel of one. Brilliant! The Governor's decision to not expand Medicaid fails…
Blog pal Joe Loveland from Minnesota fires a shot across the border at Governor Dennis Daugaard's refusal to provide health coverage to 48,000 low-income South Dakotans through the PPACA Medicaid expansion. In full satire mode, Loveland reports that wealthy philanthropist…