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.
In the wake of the nation’s new health care law, millions of Americans are coming to grips with a fact few understood before now: state regulators often have little power to stop cost hikes to health care premiums, the…
New Mexico hasn’t had much experience with rejecting health insurers’ rate requests. But another state, Massachusetts, has gotten tons this year. In April Massachusetts rejected 235 of 274 proposed premium increases requested by health insurers who offered plans on the state’s health insurance exchange.
Massachusetts’ action opens a window into the questions and issues New Mexico might encounter if it strengthens its authority to reject health insurance rate requests prior to 2014, when the federal health care law empowers states to reject unreasonable premium rate increases.
Massachusetts was the first in the nation to try a health insurance exchange—but it’s also working hard to keep costs down. As part of that effort, state regulators rejected several rate increase requests from health insurers this spring. When the…
On Thursday state lawmakers, government officials and others got a glimpse at two potential models for health insurance exchanges mandated by federal healthcare reform. Supporters of Massachusetts’ plan say the state provides an example of public-private partnership that’s working toward universal coverage. Supporters of Utah’s plan, on the other hand, hail it for allowing the health insurance industry to have more latitude with an emphasis on private-sector.
Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson, a libertarian-leaning Republican, told a New Hampshire paper that the victory by a Republican in the Massachusetts special election is not a mandate for Republicans. “I just see (voters having) a real disgust…
On Tuesday, Scott Brown pulled off one of the biggest upsets in modern political history when he became the first Republican to hold a Senate seat in Massachusetts in nearly 30 years. Brown defeated Martha Coakley, the Massachusetts Attorney…
New Mexico Sen. Jeff Bingaman donated $2,000 to help the Democratic candidate in a Massachusetts Senate special election to be held on January 19. The special election to fill the seat of the Senator Ted Kennedy after his…
States, including New Mexico, are competing for $4 billion in federal funding for innovative education programs, reports the New York Times. As the story says: “The $4 billion is the most money Washington has ever given to overhaul schools.…
