While the debate over expanding Medicaid may have slipped into the background in South Dakota, it isn’t going away.

Deb Fisher Clemens, vice president of public policy for Avera Health, says the state is passing up a lot of federal money…

 

Governor Dennis Daugaard has said he is concerned about the costs to the state if Medicaid is expanded. Fisher-Clemens says the state is paying most of those now…

 

Fisher-Clemens says the state has already taken successful steps to change how healthcare can be delivered…

 

Fisher-Clemens says she will be back in Pierre in January, urging legislators to expand Medicaid coverage.