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.
According to Gallup (hat tip to John Fleck), New Mexico is the state with the second-highest percentage of uninsured residents, trailing only our neighbors to the east, Texas. Over a quarter of New Mexicans — 25.6 percent to be precise — do not have health insurance.
From Gallup:
Higher percentages of Texas, New Mexico, and Mississippi residents are without health insurance — roughly one in four — than is true for any other states in the U.S. In Massachusetts, where legislation requires all residents to carry health insurance coverage or face a tax penalty, 5.5% are without insurance — the lowest percentage in the country.
Since last year, according to Gallup, New Mexico is also the state with the second-highest increase in uninsured since last year. Gallup says that there is a change of 4.3 percent overall since 2008. Only Nebraska (5.1 percent increase) has gained more residents without health care.
Nationwide, 16 percent of the nation’s population do not have health insurance. In 2008, the percentage of uninsured was 14.8 percent.
The numbers come from a sample of 178,545 adults, aged 18 and older, in interviews conducted Jan. 2-June 30, 2009, as part of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. Gallup polled 1,239 adults in New Mexico in that time period.
