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SD Legislator Anticipates Health Insurance to be Major Issue for the 2018 Session

SD Legislator Anticipates Health Insurance to be Major Issue for the 2018 Session

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A legislator from Sioux Falls says dealing with insurance issues may take up much of next year’s legislative session.

Representative Don Haggar says there is no guarantee that Congress will have any insurance solutions by the end of the year…..https://soundcloud.com/wnax-radio/don-haggar-511a

Haggar says the state is also waiting for changes and dollars from the Indian Health Service…..

Haggar says the state can take some steps to help those that depend on the federal health insurance exchanges….

The replacement bill for the Affordable Care Act has passed the House, and the Senate is waiting to start its action on a similar bill.

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