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Why adding nursing-home beds in SD requires government permission

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

A law passed more than three decades ago still controls the number of nursing-home beds in South Dakota. And this year a Native American tribe is asking the Legislature for an exception.

SDPB’s Seth Tupper explains the history and logic behind the policy in this installment of our series, “Why is That?”

Seth supervises SDPB's beat reporters and newscast team. He works at SDPB's Black Hills Studio in Rapid City.
Joshua is the business and economics reporter with SDPB News.