• NUMBER OF UNINSURED: Federal officials estimate 105,000 state residents are uninsured, or about 13 percent; South Dakota officials say state survey data is lower, about 9 percent.
• WHERE THE STATE STANDS: Gov. Dennis Daugaard has delayed work on setting up a health insurance exchange until the Supreme Court's decision.
• WHAT HAPPENS NOW: Daugaard says even if the law is upheld in its entirety, South Dakota won't move forward with implementing a health insurance exchange until after the November election. He hopes Republicans will win the presidency and

• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota has done little to carry out President Barack Obama's health care overhaul since it was passed two years ago, and that won't change much no matter how the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the law.
• Gov. Dennis Daugaard has delayed the state's work on setting up a health insurance exchange, which would help people and small businesses buy private insurance, to see whether the Supreme Court will throw out the law. Even if the high court upholds the law, the Republican governor says he'll wait until the November election, when he hopes voters will elect a Republican president and Congress that would repeal the measure.
• Daugaard wants most or all of the health care law to be struck down or repealed because he believes states should decide such issues.
• The federal law seeks to reduce the number of people without insurance by adding more to Medicaid, the state and federal program that pays medical expenses for poor people, and requiring most other people to get private insurance. Daugaard believes it will instead encourage more people to drop their private insurance and move onto the Medicaid rolls.
• "It encourages dependence on government-provided insurance instead of encouraging self-reliance," Daugaard said.

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