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Dakotans For Health Press Coverage

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SD NewsWatch

Controversy surrounds plan to end food tax by ballot measure rather than through legislature

“Someone needs to hold their feet to the fire,” said Dakotans for Health founder Rick Weiland of Sioux Falls, whose group also plans to put a constitutional amendment on the 2024 ballot to legalize but regulate access to abortion.

11/16/22

Bloomberg Government

Starting Again Before Final Votes Counted: Ballots ...

... some backers of last week's successful Medicaid expansion ballot ...
“We're already in the streets collecting for 2024,” Rick Weiland,...

11/15/22

Bloomberg Government

Starting Again Before Final Votes Counted: Ballots ...

... some backers of last week's successful Medicaid expansion ballot ...
“We're already in the streets collecting for 2024,” Rick Weiland,...

11/15/22

PBS News Hour

South Dakota passed Medicaid expansion. What’s next?

The vote to expand Medicaid “was long overdue” and “means so much to people who don’t have health insurance, and it means so much to our health care systems that are suffering,” said Rick Weiland, who co-founded the group Dakotans for Health and helped raise awareness of the successful ballot initiative. T

11/15/22

PBS News Hour

South Dakota passed Medicaid expansion. What’s next?

The vote to expand Medicaid “was long overdue” and “means so much to people who don’t have health insurance, and it means so much to our health care systems that are suffering,” said Rick Weiland, who co-founded the group Dakotans for Health and helped raise awareness of the successful ballot initiative. T

11/15/22

SDPR

In the Moment: Dakotans for Health co-founder talks Medicaid expansion and abortion rights ballot measures

Rick Weiland joins SDPR to discuss Medicaid expansion implementation...

11/14/22

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