Support for Medicaid expansion grows in South Dakota, one of the last red state holdouts
Posted on AllSides March 16th, 2021
From The Left
At several points last year, Louise Snodgrass experienced some COVID-like symptoms, but worried each time how much testing or treatment would cost without health insurance.
“I would have set up a doctor’s appointment if I had insurance,” said Snodgrass, 26, who works two jobs to make ends meet in Brookings, South Dakota. “Instead I sat there thinking, ‘What the heck am I going to do? I don’t even know if I’m going to get tested.’”
Eventually Snodgrass was able to get tested — the result was negative — after a...