Category Archive: health

Feb 29

Obama To Cut Healthcare Benefits For Vetrans

Obama’s plan to cut Defense spending would include making military families and retirees  pay more for their health care.  At the same time, for some reason, benefits for unionized civilian defense workers are not part of the proposed cuts.  From The Washington Free Beacon “We shouldn’t ask our military to pay our bills when we aren’t …

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Jan 13

South Dakota Will Wait On Health Insurance Exchange

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PIERRE, S.D. – Gov. Dennis Daugaard announced today that South Dakota will not pursue legislation to establish a health insurance exchange during the 2012 legislative session. “There is too much uncertainty for me to recommend legislation to create an exchange at this time,” the Governor said. “The President’s health law could be struck down by …

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Dec 21

A Tax Is A Tax

    Once again there is talk about increasing the sales tax in South Dakota by one cent. A quick glance at the few stories that there are on this issue would make it seem as if this TAX INCREASE was a foregone conclusion.  Where is the discussion? Where is the debate? Where are the …

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