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This Oct. 17, 2018 photo provided by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office shows a rescue team gathers to rescue a man who fell into an old abandoned mine shaft near Aguila, Ariz. A hospital spokeswoman said the man who fell into the old abandoned mine shaft is in good condition awaiting surgery for two broken legs. Sheriff's officials say the man fell into the shaft Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, and was found two days later by someone who heard his calls for help. (Maricopa County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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Man rescued from Arizona mine lucky to survive fall, snakes
This Oct. 17, 2018 photo provided by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office shows a rescue team gathers to rescue a man who fell into an old abandoned mine shaft near Aguila, Ariz. A hospital spokeswoman said the man who fell into the old abandoned mine shaft is in good condition awaiting surgery for two broken legs. Sheriff's officials say the man fell into the shaft Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, and was found two days later by someone who heard his calls for help. (Maricopa County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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  • This Oct. 17, 2018 photo provided by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office shows a rescue team gathers to rescue a man who fell into an old abandoned mine shaft near Aguila, Ariz. A hospital spokeswoman said the man who fell into the old abandoned mine shaft is in good condition awaiting surgery for two broken legs. Sheriff's officials say the man fell into the shaft Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, and was found two days later by someone who heard his calls for help. (Maricopa County Sheriff's Office via AP)
  • CORRECTS NAME TO SASHA NUNEZ FROM ARACELI NUNEZ - In this Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, photo, Lilia Coyt, center left, and Coyt's daughter-in-law, Sasha Nunez, feed babies in their four-bedroom home, where three generations and 15 members of the family are jammed into, in Salinas, Calif. Few cities exemplify California's housing crisis better than Salinas, an hour's drive from Silicon Valley and surrounded by farm fields. It's one of America's most unaffordable places to live, and many residents believe politicians lack a grip on the reality of the region's housing crisis. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
  • Francesco De Gregorio of Numo Cannabis helps a customer decide on his purchase of legal marijuana in Edmonton, Alberta, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. Canada became the largest country with a legal national marijuana marketplace as sales began early Wednesday. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)
  • Matthew Dahl celebrates being the first person to buy at a cannabis store in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. Canada became the largest country with a legal national marijuana marketplace as sales began early Wednesday. (John Woods/The Canadian Press via AP)
  • Two people from the United States show off their cannabis purchases outside British Columbia's first legal B.C. cannabis store in Kamloops, British Columbia, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. Canada became the largest country with a legal national marijuana marketplace as sales began early Wednesday. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP)
  • Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, left, and First lady Melania Trump, stand as Assistant Secretary for Health Brett Giroir, right, bestows an award to Dr. Loretta Finnegan at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
  • FILE - In this Sunday, Sept 9, 2018 file photo, a health worker sprays disinfectant on his colleague after working at an Ebola treatment centre in Beni, Eastern Congo. The World Health Organization is announcing on Wednesday, Oct. 17 whether Congo's latest outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus should be declared a global health emergency. (AP Photo/Al-hadji Kudra Maliro, file)
  • Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks to the media after the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on Ebola in Congo, in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. The World Health Organization says it is “deeply concerned” by the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Congo but the situation does not yet warrant being declared a global emergency. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)
  • FILE - In this July 13, 2018, file photo, first lady Melania Trump takes a seat during a visit to The Royal Hospital Chelsea in central London. Trump is visiting Philadelphia on Wednesday, Oct. 17, to meet with families of children who were affected by exposure to opioids while in the womb. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, Pool, File)
  • FILE - This combination of file photos shows Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker, left, and his Democratic challenger Tony Evers in the 2018 November general election. Walker, who is seeking a third term, has been working for years to repeal Obama's health care law and signed off on the state attorney general joining the lawsuit against it. But earlier this year, Walker called for a state law that would bar insurers from denying a person health coverage due to a pre-existing condition. Evers, his Democratic rival, launched an ad calling on Walker to drop his support for the lawsuit. (Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)
  • FILE - In this March 31, 2017 file photo provided by National Transportation Safety Board, Kristin Poland and David Pereira examine the pickup truck involved in a crash on March 29 on U.S. 83 near Garner State Park in Texas. Federal officials say a motorist’s use of marijuana and a sedative led to the collision with the church bus that killed 13 people. The National Transportation Safety Board said in a report released Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018 that toxicology tests on Jack Dillon Young, who survived the March 2017 crash, found the drugs in his blood stream. According to the report, Young said he had taken twice the prescribed dosage of the sedative before the wreck. (Jennifer Morrison/NTSB via AP, file)
  • FILE - This April 3, 2018 file photo shows a closeup of a beam scale in New York. New research, published Tuesday, Oct. 16 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggests obesity surgery may dramatically lower the danger of heart attacks and strokes in people with diabetes. The study reinforces evidence that the benefits of stomach-shrinking surgery extend beyond weight loss. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)
  • In this Oct. 11, 2018 photo provided by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, CBP Agriculture Detector K-9 named Hardy looks at a roasted pig’s head at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. A passenger traveling from Ecuador was relieved of the leftovers after the beagle alerted to the baggage at the world’s busiest airport. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection via AP)
  • FILE - This Sept. 13, 2016, file photo, shows a selection of Johnson & Johnson brand first aid products arranged for a photo in Surfside, Fla. Johnson & Johnson reports earnings Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
  • FILE- In this Sept. 12, 2018, file photo Health & Human Services Secretary Alex Azar speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in New York. In a move announced Monday, Oct. 14, by the industry's largest trade group dozens of drugmakers will start disclosing the prices for U.S. prescription drugs advertised on TV. Azar responded that the industry's announcement is a "small step in the right direction" but the government's plan "will go further." (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
  • FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2015, file photo, the Anthem logo hangs at the health insurer's corporate headquarters in Indianapolis. Federal officials say the nation’s second-largest health insurer will pay the government a record $16 million to settle potential violations of privacy requirements in a 2015 case that still stands the biggest health care hack in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
  • FILE- In this Sept. 12, 2018, file photo Health & Human Services Secretary Alex Azar speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in New York. In a move announced Monday, Oct. 14, by the industry's largest trade group dozens of drugmakers will start disclosing the prices for U.S. prescription drugs advertised on TV. Azar responded that the industry's announcement is a "small step in the right direction" but the government's plan "will go further." (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
  • FILE - In this July 17, 2017 file photo, journalist Ann Curry attends a special screening of "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power" in New York. Curry has agreed to anchor a Turner series that describes people with mysterious medical ailments, in the hope of reaching doctors or patients who have seen something similar and gotten help. Curry said Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, that she hoped real good can come from the series, tentatively titled "M.D. Live." TNT will air 10 episodes of the series sometime next year, each of them two hours. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
  • A government report says that low-income people in states that haven't expanded Medicaid are much more likely to forgo needed medical care than the poor in other states
  • According to a new survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 35 percent of caregivers have skipped routine care, 33 percent skipped a recommended treatment, and 31 percent didn't go to the doctor at all when sick or injured as a result of their caregiving responsibilities.; 4c x 10 1/4 inches; 195.7 mm x 260 mm;
  • FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2018, file photo, Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., talks to campaign volunteers at a Democratic campaign office in Phoenix. As the November elections near, Democrats are focusing on health care. It's been a constant drumbeat since the GOP launched its effort to repeal the Obama-era health law and is the subject of the greatest share of political ads on television now. It's a top issue in campaigns from Virginia to Nebraska to California, and especially in Arizona, where Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema has made it the foundation of her Senate campaign. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
  • In a photo provided by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, a tranquilized bear cub lies with a bucket stuck on its head in McHenry, Md. Wildlife officials in Maryland tracked the black bear cub for three days in order to tranquilize it Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018 and remove a bucket that had gotten stuck on its head. (Maryland Department of Natural Resources via AP)
  • FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2018, file photo, Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., talks to campaign volunteers at a Democratic campaign office in Phoenix. As the November elections near, Democrats are focusing on health care. It's been a constant drumbeat since the GOP launched its effort to repeal the Obama-era health law and is the subject of the greatest share of political ads on television now. It's a top issue in campaigns from Virginia to Nebraska to California, and especially in Arizona, where Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema has made it the foundation of her Senate campaign. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
  • FILE - This Jan. 14, 2000, file photo shows the exterior of the Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown, Conn. Guards and inmates at the institution are on the same side of a legal fight against the state over radon. A ruling by federal judge last month will allow 13 inmates to move forward with a lawsuit that alleges the state confined them in inhumane conditions because of high levels of the radioactive gas. A group of 16 former guards and staff member sued in August. (Tom Kabelka/Republican-American via AP, File)
  • FILE - In this July 14 2018, file photo, a surfer takes a spill while battling the waves at the BSR Surf resort near Waco, Texas. Health officials say a New Jersey man who died from a rare "brain-eating amoeba" was likely exposed to it during his visit to the Texas water resort last month. The Waco-McLennan County Public Health District said Friday, Oct. 12, 2018, that testing done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found evidence of the amoeba at one of the four attractions at the BSR Cable Park and Surf Resort in Waco. (Rod Aydelotte/Waco Tribune Herald, via AP File)
  • In this Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018, photo, an employee exercises a greyhound at an outdoor recreation area at Hemopet canine blood bank in Garden Grove, Calif. The organization said the dogs are walked at least five times daily and given outdoor recreation time. The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has filed a complaint alleging mistreatment of dogs at Hemopet, one of the nation's largest canine blood banks, a claim the nonprofit organization that runs the Southern California facility for retired racing greyhounds adamantly rejects. (AP Photo/Amy Taxin)
  • FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2013, file photo, inmates walk through the exercise yard at California State Prison Sacramento, near Folsom, Calif. The federal receiver who controls medical care in California state prisons is seeking up to a quarter-billion dollars annually to provide medication designed to stem a record increase in fatal drug overdoses among inmates. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
  • Graphic shows annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustments; 2c x 3 inches; 96.3 mm x 76 mm;
  • This 1981 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows varicella-zoster virions from a patient with chickenpox. On Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018, the CDC says a small but growing proportion of U.S. toddlers have not been vaccinated against any disease. (Dr. Erskine Palmer/CDC via AP)
  • Assistant Kent County Prosecutor Kimberly Richardson speaks during the probable-cause hearing for Seth Welch and his wife, Tatiana Fusari, at 63rd District Court in Grand Rapids on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. The couple were charged Monday with felony murder and first-degree child abuse after their daughter, Mary, was found unresponsive in their Solon Township home. An autopsy determined the cause of death as malnutrition and dehydration due to neglect by adult caregivers. (Cory Morse /The Grand Rapids Press via AP)
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