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South Dakota Health Insurance Costs Soaring

South Dakota Health Insurance Costs Soaring

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Insurance costs for those on individual plans are soaring, and some people are doing without.
Ryan Maher is a state Senator from Isabel, but is a full time insurance agent. He says many of his customers are seeing sticker shock…..

Maher says many of his customers are looking to the Affordable Care Act……

Maher says insurance cost for a typical ranch family are very high…….

Maher says some of the insurance companies he works with have rewritten their pricing sheets twice in the past few months.

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