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Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they're less equipped to help their parents than their kids if they had a problem overusing drugs or alcohol.

Maryland is on the verge of approving a plan that would impose a new, one-year state tax on insurance companies.

"We are disappointed that we have not achieved more at a faster pace," Marcela Hawn, a spokeswoman for the company, said in an email.

The spending bill was the insurance industry's last chance to bring down premiums before plans have to make decisions on where to sell and how to price coverage next year.

Eighty percent of people said they think drug prices are too high, and both Democrats and Republicans agreed the industry has too much sway over lawmakers.

Services rendered in urgent care centers increased 1,725 percent from 2007 to 2016, more than seven times that of emergency room claims.