Support for Medicaid expansion grows in South Dakota, one of the last red state holdouts

Posted on AllSides March 16th, 2021
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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...

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