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pansion is optional.
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• What is South Dakota doing about a health insurance exchange?
• South Dakota has decided not to set up its own health insurance exchange, instead letting the federal government operate and pay for the online system. Gov. Dennis Daugaard said annual operating costs would be too high, between $6.3 million and $7.7 million a year. The governor said even though the federal government will run the exchange, the state wants a say in which insurance companies take part and how they are regulated.
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• What is South Dakota doing about expanding Medicaid?
• South Dakota's Medicaid program now covers about 116,000 children, adults and disabled people, or more than 14 percent of the state's population. The proposed expansion would add an estimated 48,000 people, mostly adults without children. The governor has opposed expansion until the potential costs become clearer. The law requires the federal government to cover the full cost of expanding Medicaid through 2016. The state's contribution would rise in stages to 10 percent. State lawmakers are studying the issue.
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• NEW YORK (AP) -- LodgeNet Interactive Corp. says it is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as part of a plan to sell itself to investment firm Colony Capital for $60 million.
• The Sioux Falls, S.D., company, which provides Internet and on-demand movies to hotels and hospital rooms, said Monday that it is starting the Chapter 11 process with a filing in the Southern District of New York. It expects to complete its restructuring within 60 days.
• LodgeNet said Dec. 31 that it would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and be acquired by Colony Capital.
• The investment firm will provide LodgeNet with $60 million in new capital. LodgeNet also received commitments for up to $15 million in debt financing from creditors and said it will form a partnership with pay-TV provider DirecTV.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota House committee has delayed a hearing

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