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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.

For the first time in over a decade, the feds proposed new regulations for the fast-growing world of privatized Medicaid.
A generation after the Americans with Disabilities Act, states are facing federal demands to rethink their approach to helping disabled people find work. But could the policy shift worsen their prospects?
A congressional bill that aims to encourage drug breakthroughs leaves unanswered the question of who will foot the bill for medical miracles.
California will be the first U.S. state where pharmacists can prescribe birth control. Will others follow?
Instead they'll help put people on a fast track to recovery, representing a major shift in drug policy.
Since Obamacare launched, few states have enacted any new rules to make sure patients have access to doctors.
Struggling to afford new lifesaving drugs for low-income patients, states are trying to force manufacturers to reveal their costs and profits.
The latest Brookings report is perhaps the broadest ranking yet, rating more than 4,000 two- and four-year schools.
Supporters of "aid-in-dying" have had little success in state legislatures, so they're turning to the courts for help.
Facing an HIV outbreak, some lawmakers want to extend needle-exchange programs to more at-risk counties. But time and the governor may not be on their side.