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Chris Kardish

Staff Writer

Chris covers health care for GOVERNING. An Ohio native with an interest in education, he set out for New Orleans with Teach For America after finishing a degree at Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. He later covered government and politics at the Savannah Morning News and its South Carolina paper. He most recently covered North Carolina’s 2013 legislative session for the Associated Press.

Pennsylvania got some of the conservative changes it asked for, but the plan approved by the federal government contains a number of departures.
States -- including California, where female prisoners were involuntarily sterilized as late as 2013 -- are figuring out how to compensate the victims.
States can eventually drop major portions of the health law if they plan to maintain the same level of coverage at the same cost to the federal government.
The state shows it’s possible to transform Medicaid with existing systems.
All states will inevitably have to find ways to reform how they pay for Medicaid services. Right now, that way is looking like accountable care organizations.
Kevin Counihan led one of the most successful state-run health exchanges in the country.
Partially because of its high cost, nearly half the states are restricting Medicaid patients' access to an effective new hepatitis C drug. Experts say there’s no question lawsuits will come.
Voters narrowly approved a ballot measure that makes farming a constitutional right -- an idea that opponents say will make future agriculture regulations like GMO bans harder to enact and enforce.
A new study of Illinois' efforts to boost math and science graduation requirements casts doubt on the effectiveness of the policy.
Efforts to raise the legal smoking age to 21 have been limited to the local level so far, but New Jersey could be the first state to change that.