Medicaid Expansion Petitions HERE
The Bottom Line:
42k
Medicaid expansion would provide health insurance to 42,000 South Dakotans who need it
33k
33,000 valid signatures are required to qualify Medicaid expansion to the 2022 ballot
11/02
These signatures are due to the Secretary of State on November 2nd at 5PM
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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.
Help! Circulate a Petition!
We need 45, 000 total signatures by 11/7/21 to ensure Medicaid expansion qualifies to the 2022 ballot. Click below to access our "how to" guide and Medicaid expansion petition materials right now!
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!
6/21/21
Dakotans for Health crosses 15,000 signature threshold..
Today we are pleased to to report that we have beat our June signature goal by 50%. We currently have 15,000 notarized signatures in hand.
6/17/21
Great Plains Tribal Leader's Health Board Joins Dakotans for Health
The leadership of the Great Plains Tribal Leader's Health Board has joined Dakotans for Health's Medicaid expansion...
6/16/21
NIHB board member and tribal chairman endorses Dakotans for Health
Lincoln, Nebraska National Indian Health Board member and Ponca Tribe of Nebraska Chairman Larry Wright Jr. issued the following...
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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