I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
The latest fight in the Senate battle on health care is over whether or not to include a so-called “public option” in any health care reform bill. And U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman announced his support for the public option today via his Facebook page.
Bingaman wrote on his Facebook page earlier today:
I strongly support a public plan. The most critical elements of such a plan are that it would be established/ overseen by the federal government and made available to all Americans.
The primary purpose is to ensure that there is at least one option for Americans that is affordable and would provide meaningful care. By leveraging competition, a public plan would also safeguard against unscrupulous insurances practices.
A Bingaman spokesman told the same thing to the blog Firedoglake yesterday.
In short, the public option would give consumers a choice of whether to sign up for a governmental health care policy or to keep their own private policy.
