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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.

No state's voters have ever approved GMO labeling at the ballot box. But the issue is bound to resurface in statehouses in 2015.
Arizona voters overwhelmingly approved a measure that allows terminally ill patients to obtain experimental drugs that haven’t been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
A ballot measure that would have made Florida the first Southern state to legalize medical marijuana failed by a 2 percent margin.
With backing by the NRA, making hunting a constitutionally protected right has become increasingly popular in the past decade.
Californians voted against giving the state's insurance commissioner the power that most have to reject excessive health premium increases.
Voters rejected a ballot measure that would have made California the first state to drug test doctors and raised the cap on some medical malpractice damages for the first time since the 1970s.
Legislatures will consider an interstate compact next year that could make it easier for doctors to get licenses in other states, which could be a boon to rural areas that don't have enough medical care.
It's the only state that effectively bans chain stores from owning pharmacies. Voters could change that this week.
The need to fund safety-net hospitals puts expansion on the table in some states.
When a federal program to increase Medicaid doctors' pay ends Jan. 1, most states will choose not to keep it up.