ABQjournal Upfront: ABQJOURNAL UPFRONT: We All Have Stake in Medicaid Fight
Owinurame
· 8 months ago
Good piece, Thom. However, I wouldn't call Medicaid 'wildly expensive'. New Mexico pays an average of less than $1800 per person for a whole year's health insurance for Medicaid enrollees - 70% of whom are children. Compared to any private, or even employer-based health insurance, I call that a deal. And we haven't begun to discuss what it does for our state's economy. In fact it was entirely wthin reach to insure every child under 5, when the Governor promised to do so over 3 years ago. Ask him where we are on that promise of his. And now that even more people are needing it, What has he done? Crashed the ambulance. He should open up all the books so that New Mexicans can see not just every penny, but exactly why HSD can't seem to get its work done . . .
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However, I wouldn't call Medicaid 'wildly expensive'. New Mexico pays an average of less than $1800 per person for a whole year's health insurance for Medicaid enrollees - 70% of whom are children. Compared to any private, or even employer-based health insurance, I call that a deal. And we haven't begun to discuss what it does for our state's economy.
In fact it was entirely wthin reach to insure every child under 5, when the Governor promised to do so over 3 years ago. Ask him where we are on that promise of his.
And now that even more people are needing it, What has he done? Crashed the ambulance.
He should open up all the books so that New Mexicans can see not just every penny, but exactly why HSD can't seem to get its work done . . .