Health Issues

Mar 28, 2017

Lawmakers in Republican-led Kansas vote to expand Medicaid

Kansas' Republican-controlled Legislature has approved an expansion of state health coverage to thousands of poor adults under former President Barack Obama's health care overhaul


Mar 27, 2017

Illinois considers legalizing marijuana for a fiscal boost

Marijuana advocates are trying to lay the groundwork for Illinois to become the first state in the Midwest and the ninth nationwide to legalize recreational pot, arguing the move will help solve the state's notorious budget crisis


Mar 26, 2017

Medical pot bill in S. Carolina bolstered by conservatives

Efforts to let patients legally access pot are slowly taking root in the South, two decades after California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana


Mar 25, 2017

Colorado weighs strategy for guarding against pot crackdown

Colorado is considering an unusual strategy to protect its nascent marijuana industry from a federal crackdown


Mar 25, 2017

Health care law works in some ways, comes up short in others

The outlook for Barack Obama's health care law has its pluses and minuses


Mar 25, 2017

Some parts of Obamacare working well, problems with others

House Speaker Paul Ryan says the country will be living with "Obamacare" for the "foreseeable future."


Mar 24, 2017

The Latest: White House tells House GOP, 'Let's vote'

President Donald Trump wants the House to vote on the health care bill, and Republicans say a vote will occur Friday


Mar 23, 2017

Will final health care deal match Trump's campaign pitch?

President Donald Trump may be willing to make a deal to get a Republican health care law passed, but he could wind up with a plan that doesn't line up with some of his campaign promises


Mar 23, 2017

Kentucky's abortion law faces attacks in court

Kentucky's new law requiring doctors to perform a pre-abortion ultrasound exam, and attempt to show the fetal images to the pregnant woman, came under withering attack in court Thursday from opponents seeking to block its enforcement


Mar 23, 2017

Minnesota marijuana oil sent to New York stirs anger

Minnesota lawmakers want to crack down on a medical marijuana company whose ex-officials have been charged with illegally shipping marijuana oil to New York


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