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with Gail Simmons
and Carley Preusch
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Health Security for New Mexicans

The
Health Security for
New Mexicans
Campaign

with Gayle Simmons
and Carley Preusch


Health Security for New Mexicans legislation is a now before the NM House and Senate.  If you want universal health coverage in New Mexico, ACT NOW! by calling and wrtiting your legislators.

This is a bold initiative to wrest control of NM health care from private insurers and medical corporations and establish a single payer system that eliminates the top heavy and overpaid management, redundant and inefficient administration, and costly, conflicting and confusing paperwork that is driving costs skyward while providing coverage to all New Mexicans at less cost and with no additional taxes.

Gayle SImmons and Carley Preusch discuss this issue along with others that give real world perspective on the difficulties NM citizens face.  We examine the program's merits and their efforts as members of the Unitarian Universalist Church to bring social justice to NM's health care system.

The United States spends twice as much per person on health care as any other country in the world while ranking 37th in the quality of care and providing no health care coverage to almost 50 million of its citizens.

In New Mexico, we have the 2nd hightest rate of uninsured citizens in the nation .  This has SURGED to over 20% while private insurance continues on a rising curve as costs for health care grudgingly provided to the uninsured increase premiums for those that are covered - a vicious cycle.

Further, those in the middle that have employment and some financial resources, but cannot maintain the rising premiums, play Russian Roulette with their financial security knowing that their life savings could evaporate if they or a family member were to face a serious long term illness without coverage.

You might ask where the money goes if the US spends double what other industrialized coutries spend with such poor results.  Insurance companies, Big Pharma, and a calcifying culture of cost+ pricing policies - where medical industry corporate profits are a guaranteed percentage on top of the money spent and there is little oversight, cost control, or incentives for efficiency - continue to drive costs through the roof.

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Health Security for New Mexicans

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