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In the third installment of the weekly Independent Insider podcast, Independent writers discussed health care, the governor’s race and Carol Sloan’s day at the Supreme Court.
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The Independent’s Senior Writer Trip Jennings and contributing writer Larry Behrens discussed what could happen if the Feds don’t send more Medicaid money to the states. Right now, the state has no plan for what it’ll do if the money doesn’t come.
Behrens shared some information he got from U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., on the status of the Medicaid money.
Much of the second half of the podcast is spent discussing the gubernatorial race between Democratic candidate Diane Denish and Republican candidate Susana Martinez, including the fact that Factcheck.org, a non-partisan fact-checking website, has taken interest in the race.
