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.
Do Americans think that they have the best health care in the world? According to a new poll by the Pew Research Center… not really. The poll finds that just 15 percent of those polled say America has the best health care system in the world, while 32 percent say it is average and 27 percent say it is below average; 23 percent say is is above average.
Those numbers, today’s “Daily Number” for Pew, come from a poll from May of this year. The same poll showed that 42 percent of Americans believe that America has the best military in the world.
The beliefs on health care reform were split on party lines:
Most Republicans say U.S. health care is either the best in the world (28%) or above average (29%). Democrats largely take the opposite view, with nearly seven-in-ten saying U.S. health care is either average (35%) or below average (34%). Independents have more in common with Democrats than with Republicans in their evaluation of America’s health care. Roughly six-in-ten say health care in this country is average (32%) or below average (29%) compared with other industrialized countries.
Health care reform bills have passed all the committees they were assigned to in both the House and Senate and now the legislation is moving towards the floors of each chamber.
