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Medicaid Expansion in South Dakota with Mitch Richter

This video is from SDPB's news program, South Dakota Focus.

A coalition of more than two dozen organizations has come together to encourage South Dakotans to support Medicaid Expansion. The group is called South Dakotans Decide Healthcare.

In this installment of Pierre to Peer, SDPB's Lee Strubinger talks with former lawmaker Mitch Richter about the ballot issue, a failed attempt to expand Medicaid this session, and what that expansion might mean for South Dakotans.

Lee Strubinger is SDPB’s Rapid City-based politics and public policy reporter. Lee is a two-time national Edward R. Murrow Award winning reporter. He holds a master’s in public affairs reporting from the University of Illinois-Springfield.