The South Dakota legislature defeated several measures this year that would have expanded Medicaid coverage to an additional forty eight thousand people.
Senator Jean Hunhoff of Yankton, Chair of the Health and Human Services Committee, says they are still looking at options to help those at the low end of the coverage scale…
Hunhoff says they are concerned that the federal government will not live up to its financial promises, leading to people losing their new coverage…
Hunhoff says governments have a difficult time ever ending any benefit program…
