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Missouri state Rep. Darin Chappell and House Majority Leader Alex Riley confer in the Missouri House in March (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications).

Plan to put Medicaid work requirements in Missouri state Constitution draws public opposition

Advocates for cancer patients, people with developmental disabilities and their caregivers urged Missouri lawmakers Wednesday to reject a proposal writing Medicaid work requirements into the state ...

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Abortion Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Maria Lazar endorses fetal heartbeat bill By Richard Eberwein – 1/14/26

Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Maria Lazar has far-right views on reproductive rights, including the belief that a six-week heartbeat abortion ban would be “middle” ground.

Economy Lawmakers seek hospital price transparency, while hospitals say they should focus on insurers By Baylor Spears Wisconsin Examiner – 1/08/26

A bill to implement state-level enforcement of federal hospital price transparency requirements in Wisconsin, with the goal of bringing down the cost of health care, received pushback from hospital ...

Abortion Kentucky woman may have been wrongfully charged with fetal homicide after abortion By Richard Eberwein – 1/06/26

Last week, a Kentucky woman was arrested and charged with fetal homicide after taking abortion pills, even though the state’s abortion laws protect pregnant women that induce their own abortions.

Economy As ACA tax credits expire, Ohio families face rising health costs By FARAH SIDDIQI Ohio News Connection – 1/05/26

Enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits expired last Wednesday and health advocates said Ohioans who buy their own insurance could see sharp increases in their premiums in 2026. Some lawmakers are ...

Health care Average Iowans face losing health insurance By MARK MORAN Iowa News Connection – 1/05/26

More than 110,000 Iowans stand to lose health insurance or pay sharply higher premiums if Congress elects not to extend tax cuts that currently make coverage more affordable.House members have said ...

Health care Ryan Mackenzie flip-flops on ACA, which he once called ‘an infringement upon our rights’ By Richard Eberwein – 12/22/25

The swing-district lawmaker has a decade-long history of opposition to both the program and health care expansion in Pennsylvania.

Abortion County chairs for Ashley Hinson’s Senate campaign have multiple ties to far-right extremists By Richard Eberwein – 12/18/25

Multiple members of U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson’s (R-IA) county leadership team for her U.S. Senate campaign in Iowa have ties to far-right and extremist views.

Health care Caps on nursing education funding threaten Tennessee health care workforce By DANIELLE SMITH Tennessee News Service – 12/17/25

A proposal by the Trump administration could make it harder for people to become nurses, even as Tennessee and the nation face a severe nursing shortage. Nursing would no longer be classified as a ...

Health care ‘Deb’s Law’ makes Illinois a first in end-of-life choice By JUDITH RUIZ-BRANCH Illinois News Connection – 12/15/25

Illinois is now the first state in the Midwest to legalize medical aid in dying, and advocates are praising what they call the culmination of a decades-long push toward autonomy and compassion in ...

Health care North Dakota farmers brace for loss of ACA subsidies By MIKE MOEN Greater Dakota News Service – 12/08/25

Roughly 70% of North Dakota’s agriculture workforce makes use of enhanced federal subsidies for health premiums on the Affordable Care Act marketplace. But with an expiration date looming, ...

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