Affordable Health Care for New Mexicans
- (May 2010) Health care is a huge expenditure for the state of New Mexico, and we could spend that money more efficiently. Good health care is a good investment for New Mexico. Money put up by New Mexico to insure children whose families cannot afford health insurance (known as the SCHIP program) is matched 4 to 1 by the federal government. This brings money into our state, as well as keeping our children healthy. Researchers at BYU and Arizona State University report that it costs states less to keep such children insured and healthy under SCHIP, than for uninsured kids to show up for routine care or preventable complications in emergency rooms.
- Affordable health care is a national problem that will not fix itself. We need to do what we can in New Mexico to make basic health care available and affordable to all.
