rural areas of south dakota?
again, representative susan
wismer first.
wismer: well, the first
thing we could do is expand
medicaid.
we are passing on the
$5 million a week investment
in our in state health care
institution.
i will stay away from the
rest of the medicaid
expansion discussion
assuming we will talk about
that later.
but it is having severe
affects on the health of all
of our institutions because
windy affordable care act
was passed, it was passed
with the assumption that
there would be far fewer
patients that did not have
insurance.
there would be a far less
degree of uncompensated
care.
because we still do still
have 48,000 non covered
residence hospitals still
have the same degree of non