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A grassroots campaign to put universal healthcare on the Washington ballot in 2018 has fallen short. Campaign organizers announced they are ending the petition drive for Initiative 1600.

Washington's Insurance Commissioner is proposing legislation that would establish a so-called “reinsurance” program he says will provide stability in the market and lower individual premium costs.

Immigrants without legal status are not eligible for government healthcare plans like Medicaid. So some Washington lawmakers want to create a program to cover some of their reproductive healthcare needs, including abortions, contraceptives and family planning.

Washington’s eight-billion-dollar wine industry relies heavily on its workers, many of whom do not have easy access to healthcare. A non-profit winery called Vital Wines is looking to change that. Ashley Trout founded the non-profit in 2016.

Despite numerous requests for a veto, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed a controversial bill to privatize the state’s homecare provider system. The Democrat’s signing of the measure followed a contentious fight in the Legislature and accusations that it amounted to a power grab by the Service Employees International Union.

Many people forced into labor or the sex trade seek medical help at some point, and health care workers are being trained to identify them and to offer assistance.

Lew Zirkle, a doctor in Richland, Washington, works with thousands of surgeons all over the world to treat injuries in poor or war-ravaged countries. He will receive the U.S. Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service—the highest honor the Defense department gives to a non-career civilian—by Secretary James Mattis later this month.

In a recent study of patients treated by emergency medical responders in Oregon, black patients were 40 percent less likely to get pain medicine than their white peers. Why?

The opioid epidemic has torn through the United States in recent years. Washington has not been spared. In 2016, more than 42,000 people died from opioid overdoses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Almost 700 of those deaths were in Washington, according to the state Department of Health.

Later this year, the high court will hear a case that seeks to invalidate the entire Affordable Care Act. In a court filing Thursday, the Trump administration fully supported the move.