VIEWPOINT | If we lose Medicaid, schools and small business, what's left?

Guest column by South Dakota Rep. Erik Muckey (District-15)

Eric Muckey

In South Dakota, we roll up our sleeves and get to work. We build businesses to solve problems. We raise families by balancing our budgets. We hold our communities together through service— whether in a volunteer fire department or on a local EMS crew.

But there are things we can’t do alone: keep hospitals open without Medicaid, fund mental health care without federal support, or care for our most vulnerable neighbors without partnership.

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