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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.

States are supposed to implement the new education standards this fall. But the opposition to Common Core – which has enemies of every political persuasion – could undermine the program first.
A new report finds that due to funding cuts, states are skimping on public health, leaving their residents vulnerable to infectious disease and food-borne illness.
Despite the president's recommendations, nearly half the states, including some of the staunchest supporters of Obamacare, have refused to allow insurers to reissue canceled health plans.
Enrollment dramatically increased on both the federal and state-based online insurance marketplaces, but the state-based sites are still far outpacing the federal one.
A new federal law increasing oversight of pharmacies came in response to a deadly fungal meningitis. But it creates a voluntary system, leaving states mostly free to continue operating as before.
A new study examines the costs of Medicaid expansion in states that oppose it and finds residents in those states will shoulder the burden for other states to capitalize.
The federal government is offering a temporary fix for a problem that prevents consumers from signing up for Medicaid through the online insurance marketplace.
The United States continues to perform below-average in math and middle-of-the-road in reading and science when compared with other industrialized nations.
Based on the experiences of states that expanded Medicaid in recent years, predicting costs and needs of the newly covered population will be tough, according to a new report.
San Rafael, Calif., has banned smoking in any housing unit that shares a wall with another residence. That applies to owners and renters alike.