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Health insurance Medicaid expansion in South Dakota still undecided

Dennis Daugaard on South Dakota Health Insurance Exchange

Providers of healthcare services in the state are urging lawmakers to broaden the program. With the election behind us, the healthcare reforms are now certain to take place, and states are now facing a tight deadline to make their health insurance system decisions, including whether or not they will be establishing their own exchanges, and if they will take part in the optional Medicaid expansions. At the moment, hospitals and doctors in South Dakota are asking the state to widen its Medicaid. They have been urging the state government to…

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Health insurance exchange in South Dakota will be federally run

Dennis Daugaard on South Dakota Health Insurance Exchange

Governor of the state, Dennis Daugaard, has announced that it will not be operating its own marketplace. The governor of South Dakota, Denis Daugaard, has now announced that the state will not be establishing and operating its own health insurance exchange, as per the heath care reform requirements, and will therefore be deferring the operation and cost of that marketplace to the federal government. The law requires that each state have an exchange and that it will be federally run if the state defers. These health insurance exchanges are marketplaces…

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