The two other health issues with a big role in the midterms: insurance costs and the opioid crisis

In Ohio, the candidates for governor are sparring over a ballot initiative that would reduce penalties for drug possession, largely prohibiting the use of jail time as a punishment. But some Ohio voters fear the measure may go too far and fail to get more people there into treatment, Adam Cancryn writes for Politico.

Meanwhile, Democrats across the country are campaigning on their pledge to protect insurance coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, which Republican-backed health reform bills in 2017 would have eliminated. Though some GOP candidates have taken to dubiously pledging support for those protections, Democrats are still winning voters’ trust on health care, Janie Velencia and Dhrumil Mehta write in FiveThirtyEight.