Marion Michael Rounds needs to start reading the blogs. Not only would it help make him a more in-tune policymaker, but it would also keep him from making stupid mistakes. The GOP Senate candidate is recycling the oft-repeated and oft-rebutted…
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Rick Weiland is offering the boldest, clearest policy initiative of any candidate for South Dakota's open U.S. Senate seat. Elaborating on a policy he has advocated throughout his campaign, Weiland is promising that one of his first proposals after taking…
Mr. Epp's Northern Plains News points us toward a November report by the Center for Rural Affairs on the impact of the Affordable Care Act on senior citizens. Far from grannies being thrown under buses by death panels, report author…
Rick Weiland appears to be ready to make Medicare E—Medicare for Everyone—a centerpiece of his campaign for U.S. Senate. David Montgomery puts Weiland's advocacy for the McGovern proposal to allow anyone to sign up for Medicare, regardless of age, front…
South Dakota hates it when the federal government pays for health care. Wait: no we don't! Twenty-six rural hospitals in South Dakota are threatened by a federal agency's proposal that could take away the extra payments they get for service…
Rick Weiland caféstormed west on I-90 yesterday, hitting Hartford, Humboldt, Montrose, Salem, Alexandria, and Mitchell. He's on track to have visited 50 towns by Saturday. Gee, DSCC, if you have a better primary candidate, he or she will have some…
Hat tip to Mark Thoma! Government can't do anything right... except keep overhead on health insurance down to 1%: The traditional Medicare program allocates only 1 percent of total spending to overhead compared with 6 percent when the privatized portion…