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.
Americans’ confidence in their ability to pay for and access health care has fallen by 5 percent since December 2009, according to a Thomson Reuters poll of consumer confidence released Monday.
The monthly survey questions 3,000 consumers about their ability to pay for healthcare. According to Reuters, “On every survey question, responses were more pessimistic in July than they were in December.”
The increased dissatisfaction with the current health care system comes after Congress passed a health care reform law earlier this year. David Kendall, a senior fellow for health and fiscal policy at ThirdWay, a centrist think tank, is quoted in the Reuters piece as theorizing that the “dissatisfaction with the current health system likely reflects a letdown after the reform debate subsided.”
“The healthcare debate raised people’s expectations and there is now disappointment as a result that the problem isn’t solved,” Kendall said.
Most of the provisions of the new federal health care law don’t take effect until 2014, although some provisions already are changing aspects of health care in the country.
