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.
Starting today health insurers can’t deny coverage to New Mexico children under the age of 19 with preexisting conditions. And adult children can stay on their parents’ insurance policies until age 26. Those changes are two of several provisions of the nation’s new health care law that go into effect today.
Others include a ban on health insurers imposing lifetime limits on coverage, meaning that the insurers can no longer discontinue coverage once spending on an individual’s or a family’s health insurance hits a certain predetermined level.
The new law also tackles annual dollar coverage limits currently in place, with a provision taking effect today that raises the limit a health insurer can spend on “essential” health benefits each year.
Here’s a short, informative explainer from Kaiser Health News on the provisions taking effect today.
