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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.

Opponents say a ballot question asking Missouri voters Tuesday whether they support the right to farm is a misleading attempt to exempt agribusiness from future regulations.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is holding public hearings on its new rules regulating power plants, and both sides of the debate are coming out in full force.
Adam O’Neal walked 273 miles from his town of Belhaven to the park just north of the U.S. Senate to highlight the precarious state of the nation’s rural hospitals and try to save his own.
The recent discovery that the state has 96% less recoverable oil than previously thought may have helped the case for regulating instead of banning fracking.
Two courts issued contradictory rulings Tuesday about whether the federal government can offer insurance subsidies to people in states not running their own online marketplaces.
Missouri is likely the first state to pass a law that lets medical school graduates practice primary care in underserved areas without completing a residency.
Republican Pat McCrory gave his strongest approval yet of the possibility of expansion, but two major obstacles stand in the way.
The new federal fund provides money for states to reform how they deliver and pay for Medicaid, but it isn't given directly to the states.
Enrollment may be closed in the Affordable Care Act's private insurance marketplaces, but Medicaid continues adding patients.
Through a combination of coordinated care and performance pay, the state's unique Medicaid program has lowered ER visits and hospitalizations while expanding its population covered.