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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.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that the least healthy counties have twice as many children living in poverty and twice the mortality rate of healthier counties.
Most states aren't providing health care price information in an accessible way, despite the existence of disclosure laws in many states.
With the help of a first-place award from a national public policy contest, a team of graduate students plans to increase breastfeeding rates in New York City.
After 28 years in the Army, Tony Tata landed a job for which he lacks the traditional credentials. Is the ability to command more important than substantive knowledge when it comes to high-level government jobs?
Recognizing that the majority of calls they get are now people seeking medical help, some fire departments are diving deeper into a medical role.
Several states that ban the drug for medicinal purposes are considering allowing children suffering from epilepsy to take a marijuana extract. But the bills stop short of easing the sale of those medications.
As consolidations have become increasingly more common across the country, Massachusetts has the nation's only independent state agency focused on evaluating their effects.
A Missouri lawmaker is pitching a plan that would expand Medicaid but with the toughest work and premium requirements of any current proposal.
Enrollment in the state and federal health exchanges fell slightly in February, one month before the deadline for open enrollment.
Louisiana officials are telling liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org to take down its billboard attacking Gov. Bobby Jindal for refusing to expand Medicaid.