Burt Jones is Georgia's lieutenant governor and he seemed to have a clear path to be the Republican nominee for governor this year with President Donald Trump's endorsement, But then health care tycoon Rick Jackson got into the race in February and he's already spent more than $30 million of his own money on television campaign ads. Jackson pitches himself as a business outsider but is criticized by Jones over his conservative credentials. Jackson’s emergence is yet another challenge to Trump’s influence in a critical battleground state where the president’s kingmaker record is shaky.

New Medicaid work requirements signed into law by President Donald Trump are meant to save money. But states first will have to spend millions of dollars to implement them. An Associated Press analysis finds that states are projected to spend over $1 billion on technology improvements and additional staff needed to carry out the requirements. The Medicaid changes were included in Trump's big tax-cut law passed by Congress last year. States are still waiting on federal rules to provide further guidance. But they face a time crunch because the Medicaid work requirements are supposed to be enforced next January.

President Donald Trump has said the U.S. was sending a hospital ship to Greenland because people there are not getting care, but the claim faces pushback. He said in a Truth Social post Saturday that the ship was already on the way, though at the time he posted, the two U.S. ships appeared to be docking in Alabama. Publicly available ship tracking data shows that on Tuesday one of the ships, the USNS Mercy, went out to sea. It's not clear from the public data where the ship is headed, and Pentagon officials didn't comment when asked about its destination. The leaders of Greenland and Denmark have defended their health care system in response to Trump's allegations.

An estimated 31,000 registered nurses and other front-line Kaiser Permanente health care workers will return to work on Tuesday after a four-week strike in California and Hawaii to demand better wages and staffing. The union said in a statement Monday that “significant movement at the bargaining table” prompted an end to the walkout. They provided no additional details, but Kaiser Permanente officials said an agreement on wages had been reached. A Kaiser spokesperson said the company is working to schedule returning employees.