The Bottom Line:
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Medicaid expansion would provide health insurance to 42,000 South Dakotans who need it
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Our grassroots network collect over 60,000 signatures to put Medicaid expansion on the ballot!
11/08
On Tuesday, November 8th vote YES on IM 28 and Amendment D!
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Getting Started
Not sure where to being? Try completing some of the actions on our 'Getting Started' page.
Great Plains Tribal Chairmen's Healthcare Survey
We want to hear how you feel about healthcare the Dakotas so we put together a brief survey using artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of our digital Smart Assistant "The Doctor." The survey is approximately 8 questions long and won't be available forever.
Postcards for Medicaid
Sign up for this leading edge GOTV and persuasion program. Put Medicaid expansion over the top in November.
Grassroots networks like Dakotans For Health are critical to the success of ballot measures.
Steve Hildebrand | Sioux Fall, SD
Health Insurance for 42,000
We have partnered with the South Dakota AFL-CIO and Great Plains Tribal Chairmen's Association on a ballot measure that will deliver healthcare to those who need it but can’t afford it, including many parents, seniors, and hardworking families of four who earn less than $34,000 a year. It will bring $300 million of our tax dollars home from Washington, D.C. every year that will make it possible to provide health insurance to the uninsured, lower insurance premiums, make prescription drugs more affordable, keep our rural hospitals open, and create thousands of new jobs, but we need your help...
Grassroots Networks Win Initiatives
Grassroots networks are the central component of our strategy to qualify the measure, build support for passage, and establish a constituency that can implement and defend the law. So be the change you want to see in this world. Join our grassroots effort and start circulating a petition to expand Medicaid right now!
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11/7/21
Federal Judge denies NOEM. Extends signature deadline for Initiated Measures...
On Wednesday, November 3rd Federal Judge Charles B Kornmann rejected Governor Noem’s request to stop his August allowing signature gathering
10/5/21
8th CIRCUIT REJECTS NOEM’S REQUEST TO HALT LOWER COURT RULING ON SB 180
The 8th Circuit yesterday rejected Governor Noem’s request to stop Judge Lawrence Piersol’s recent ruling that SB 180 is...
9/8/21
Frazier: Build Back Better is taking care of the middle class and most vulnerable among us
There’s no better time than now for Congress to expand access to Medicaid as part of the ongoing budget reconciliation process...
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The work of expanding Medicaid is critical to the longterm success of Indian Country and I would like to thank Dakotans for Health for taking it on. People's lives literally depend on it.
Chairman Robert Flying Hawk
Yankton Sioux Tribe