- Governor still undecided on Medicaid expansion, By Lynn Taylor Rick, November 13, 2012, Rapid City Journal: “After first hoping the courts would strike it down and then that Mitt Romney would dismantle it, a top aide to Gov. Dennis Daugaard said Monday he isn’t sure if South Dakota will expand its Medicaid rolls under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The governor, however, remains steadfast in his decision not to operate a state-run health insurance exchange, according to Tony Venhuizen, director of policy and communication with the governor’s office. Both the expansion of Medicaid and the health insurance exchange are part of the president’s health care reform legislation that was signed into law in 2010…”
- Gov. Bentley says Alabama won’t set up exchange, expand Medicaid, By Kim Chandler, November 13, 2012, Birmingham News: “Bentley, in a show of continued resistance to the Affordable Care Act, said this afternoon that he will not set up a state health care exchange and he will not expand Medicaid under the federal healthcare overhaul. ‘I will not set up a state exchange in Alabama,’ Bentley said during a speech to the Birmingham Business Alliance. States have a Friday deadline to inform the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services if they plan to set up a state-run exchange, essentially a marketplace for people and businesses to shop for insurance. If states don’t set up their own exchange, either alone or in federal partnership, then the federal government will step in and design it…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty