While one of the bills that would have expanded Medicaid coverage in South Dakota was tabled in committee last week, the effort is not over.

District 18 Senator Bernie Hunhoff says negotiations continue over how to do the expansion…

 

For the last couple of years it has been reported that about forty eight thousand adults would be covered under the expansion. On Friday, Hunhoff says the federal government revised that number…

 

The new numbers indicate about twenty six thousand adults would be covered.

 

Hunhoff says he is still optimistic that they can find an agreement this session…

 

District 18 legislators held the second cracker-barrel of the session on Saturday.