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Dakotans for Health Opens Democracy Center in Sioux Falls, …

WEBDakotans for Health isn’t just fighting to expand Medicaid in South Dakota; they’re fighting for more democracy for everybody in our fair state.. Recognizing the …

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Dakotans for Health Withdraws IM 28; Amendment D Now Sole …

WEBIn today’s ballot question surprise, Dakotans for Health has withdrawn its Initiated Measure 28, a proposed law to expand Medicaid. Dakotans for Health …

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Write Roe v. Wade into SD Constitution—Dakotans for Health …

WEBDakotans for Health has started early enough that, even if the Attorney General takes the full 80 days to produce a title and 200-word-maximum explanation, …

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Second Medicaid Expansion Measure Qualifies for November …

WEBDakotans for Health submitted its initiative petition on May 3 with, by its count, over 23,000 signatures, 36% more than the 16,961 required to put initiated laws …

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Dakotans for Health in Court, Recruiting Tribal Leaders and …

WEBIn addition, health care providers who accept Medicaid cannot bill the patient for any additional charges after Medicaid has adjudicated the claim, as they can with …

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Medicaid Expansion: Hire 68 FTEs, Spend $12.7M in State Dollars …

WEB1. Expanding Medicaid means more people get health coverage. 2. Health coverage means healthier workers. 3. Healthier workers put in more hours and make …

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Guest Column: Medicaid Expansion “Lifeline” for American Indians

WEBIn this release from Dakotans for Health, President Bordeaux explains how Medicaid and Medicaid expansion have helped American Indian communities, criticizes …

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South Dakota Has Highest Health Care Costs

WEBThe Mount Rushmore State also ranked ninth highest for health care costs per person in the state, with South Dakota health care costs averaging $11,736 per year …

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Dakotans for Health Submits Revised Initiative Language to Repeal …

WEBOne would initiate a law to exempt food from the state sales tax; the other would write that exemption into the South Dakota Constitution. On August 12, the LRC …

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Dakotans for Health Could Spend Full Year Collecting Signatures …

WEBDakotans for Health is evidently taking my advice and gearing up to launch its petition drive to place Medicaid expansion on the 2022 ballot as soon as possible. …

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Health Care Still Puts Too Much Burden on Family Budgets

WEBSara R. Collins, Shreya Roy, and Relebohile Masitha, Paying for It: How Health Care Costs and Medical Debt Are Making Americans Sicker and Poorer — …

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Dakotans for Health Sues to Block Minnehaha County’s …

WEBIn a Dakotans for Health lawsuit that culminated in an appeals ruling in November 2022, Leach convinced Judge Lawrence Piersol and the Eighth Circuit that …

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Dakotans for Health Hosts Rally for Roe Initiative and Four Other

WEBThe deadline for submitting initiative petitions for the 2024 general election is May 7, but Dakotans for Health is pushing to submit its Roe v.Wade petition this …

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CBO: Single-Payer Health Coverage Would Improve Workers’ Lives

WEBLastly, improvements in people’s health outcomes increase GDP in 2030 by 0.5 percent relative to current law, as the population and labor force grow and workers’ …

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SD Department of Health Discourages Use of Masks to Prevent …

WEBAs coronavirus resurges, the South Dakota Department of Health vows to put Freedom (yes, they capitalize it, as required in the Noem Style Book) above science …

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Phil Jensen: Other People’s Health Doesn’t Matter to Me, Except …

WEBAt the crackerbarrel, state Sen. Phil Jensen was blunt about the money for expanding Medicaid: “The state has no more money, and the (federal) government is …

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SD Health Care Association: Nursing Home Crisis Becoming …

WEBThe Executive Director of the South Dakota Health Care Association doesn’t mince words. “I would say it is a crisis quickly becoming a catastrophe.”. Dow Rummel’s …

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Health Secretary Adam Quits After Noem Chews Her Out for …

WEBMake room for more flunkies: Health Secretary Joan Adam is quitting after spending less than a year in the top spot. Today, South Dakota Department of Health …

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Minnesota, New York Offer Health Insurance for Lower-Income …

WEBOf course, consumers would have a lot more money to spend on Christmas goodies if we behaved like every other civilized nation and implemented universal …

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Sanford Doctor Aids and Abets Anti-Vaccine Misinformers in Sioux …

WEBEat an extra apple today to keep this doctor away. Sanford eye doctor Mick Vanden Bosch joined an anti-vaccine demonstration outside his employer’s campus on …

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Thune, Rounds, Senate GOP Block Health Care for Poisoned …

WEBLast month, both of South Dakota’s Senators voted against the PACT Act, the measure to expand assistance for military personnel poisoned by toxic burn pits and …

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