A task force assembled by South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard is moving rapidly toward an agreement over possible Medicaid expansion.
Senator Billie Sutton of Burke is a member of the Health Care Solutions Task Force. He says the plan hinges on agreement from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid………
Governor Daugaard and a number of legislators have been hesitant to move forward with Medicaid expansion because they didn’t trust the federal government to live up to promised funding. Sutton says this agreement would move beyond that…

Sutton says it would be difficult for the 2016 legislature to reject an agreement between the state and federal authorities….
The deal would also involve the Indian Health Service in providing services to native Americans.